"hump" savings. A major difference between this study and previous investigations of this issue is the use of more accurate … savings. This paper suggests the importance of and need for substantially greater research and data collection on … intergenerational transfers. fife-cycle models of savings that emphasize savings for retirement as the dominant form of apical …

savings? Is it primarily accumulation for retirement as claimed by Albert Ando, Richard Brumberg, and Franco Modigliani in … their celebrated Life Cycle Model of Savings? Is it primarily intentional accumulation for intergenerational transfers? Or … is it primarily precautionary savings, much of which may be bequeathed because of imperfections in annuity markets? This …

Population aging has been linked to a global savings glut and a decline in safe real interest rates. Conversely, risky …

We propose a theory of indebted demand, capturing the idea that large debt burdens by households and governments lower … aggregate demand, and thus natural interest rates. At the core of the theory is the simple yet under-appreciated observation …

model is based on the theory of exact aggregation. It recognizes explicitly that households with different characteristics …

with preferences over the intrinsic qualities of occupations into a standard theory of intergenerational mobility …