expansion of household debt, the boom in housing, and declining flows of household savings into deposit institutions. These data …This study describes how accelerating inflation has led households indifferent economic and demographic classes to … reallocate their quot;transactable savings.quot; Cross-section data from the 1962 and 1970 Surveys of Consumer Finances are used …

existing debt. A simulation is conducted on future paths of household saving and fiscal situations to show that the ceiling …, financial instability, and inflation …

Data for world savings rates do not suggest that an aggregate glut of world savings has depressed US and international … interest rates in recent years. Unusual but offsetting changes in savings rates have been limited to three regions: sharp … increased very little. There are two important features of this change in regional savings behavior. First, three-quarters of …

This paper studies the effect that changing demographic patterns have had on the household saving rate in China. We …'s utility enter into parent's utility where parents choose the consumption level of the young until they leave the household … the household saving rate …

-2008. Using data from the Flow of Funds Accounts (FFA) and Urban Household Surveys (UHS) supplemented by the findings from … household sectors. Although the causes of China's high saving are complex, we suggest that the evolving economic, demographic …

imply. Our results also suggest that a substantial part of the reduced form relationship between stock holding and household …