shifted towards defined contribution (DC) plans as their primary savings plan, and fiscal pressures are likely to generate … retirement in other accounts. There is also substantial heterogeneity across jurisdictions in the savings generated in primary DC … employer match. We conclude by applying lessons from savings behavior in private sector savings plans to the design of public …

China's high corporate savings rate is commonly claimed to be a key driver for the country's large current account … surplus. The mainstream explanation for high corporate savings is a combination of windfall profits in state-owned firms … doubt on these views by comparing the savings of 1557 Chinese listed firms with those of 29330 listed firms from 51 other …

While it is by now well known that the privatization of township- and village-run enterprises (TVREs) has been rapidly … and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource … allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the fuller understanding of the effect of privatization, this study …

This paper studies the economic benefits of home ownership. Exploiting a quasi-experiment surrounding privatization … of housing wealth are concentrated among the home owners who sell subsequent to privatization and among those who receive …

In this paper, we present data on trends over time in domestic saving rates in twelve economies in developing Asia … Asia have, in general, been high and rising but that there have been substantial differences from economy to economy and … rates in developing Asia for the 2011-2030 period based on our estimation results and find that the domestic saving rate in …

Asia to support this interpretation …

. Corporate savings have surged across Asia during this period, becoming the main component of gross national savings in the … growth rates for the key emerging markets and other developing economies in Asia. China has by far the lowest share of … private consumption to GDP in Asia and, during this decade, has recorded the lowest rate of employment growth relative to GDP …

-constrained previously decreased their savings more (or increased their savings less) relative to unconstrained firms. However, this firm …-level effect did not lead to a decrease in aggregate corporate savings as conjectured by the theory. Our sector level regressions … show that corporate savings increased after financial reforms, and more so for sectors more dependent on external finance …