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savings rate, banking system, financial markets, financial regulations, corporate governance, and public finances; and …
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, normal economic development is suspended. Moreover, difficult to reverse capital flight puts savings outside the home economy …
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banks, but had no effect on financial literacy; (b) significantly increased savings over a ten month period, and (c) had no … effect of the use of accounts for transactions. The increase in savings is a 1.6 percentage point increase in the savings … rate out of the cash transfer depostis, and a 0.5 percentage point increase in the savings rate out of household income …
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savings and investments were taxed in an arbitrary and unpredictable way, the credibility of a new regime could not be assumed …
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The accumulation of international reserves by emerging markets raises the question of how to best utilize these funds. This paper explores two routes through which the pooling of reserves could enhance stability and welfare. First, the reserve pool could be used for emergency lending in response...
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We use data from the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) database to perform preliminary empirical analysis of the interplay between quality and quantity of finance in accounting for the output growth of ten sectors. We review the existing literature and some salient open questions...
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Recent evidence suggests that the default options implicit in economic choices (e.g., 401(k) savings by white … effect of defaults on savings among a highly policy-relevant population: low-income tax filers. In the control condition, tax … filers could choose (i.e., opt in) to receive some of their federal tax refund in the form of U.S. Savings Bonds. In the …
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This paper studies the effect that changing demographic patterns have had on the household saving rate in China. We undertake a quantitative investigation using an overlapping generations (OLG) model where agents live for 85 years. Consumers begin to exercise decision making when they are 18....
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) through both a savings channel and an effective labor supply channel. The effects can be quantitatively large if the …
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In this paper, we define "The Chinese Saving Puzzle" as the persistently high national saving rate at 34-53 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the past three decades and a surge in the saving rate by 11 percentage points from 2000-2008. Using data from the Flow of Funds Accounts (FFA)...
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