rate. So a rise will be driven by higher household savings of the coming years as the two primary forces that depressed … savings in recent years are reversed: the exceptionally rapid rise in household wealth and the high level of mortgage …

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system … on private retirement savings. Our results show that the letters increase private retirement savings. The effects are … increase in savings partly crowds out charitable donations. Moreover, we present evidence suggesting that both information and …

This paper analyzes the determinants of savings in the world economy, and discusses why saving ratios have been so … uneven across countries. A distinction is made between private and government savings, using panel data for 36 countries …, from 1970 to 1992. In particular, it is assumed that government savings are not completely exogenous, and respond to both …

The high and rising household savings rate in China is not easily reconciled with the traditional explanations that … new competitive saving motive: As the sex ratio rises, Chinese parents with a son raise their savings in a competitive … manner in order to improve their son's relative attractiveness for marriage. The pressure on savings spills over to other …

Substantial evidence suggests that savings behavior may depart from neoclassical optimization. This article examines … the implications of raising the savings rate - whether through social security, retirement plans, or otherwise - for labor … savings behavior. Under one formulation, raising the targeted savings rate has the same effect on labor supply as that of …