-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 …

determinants of household saving rates in transition economies. We find savings rates to increase strongly in relative income and … household in the transition process, notably the sector of employment, plays no significant role in determining savings rates …Based on matching household surveys for three central European countries, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland, we explore the …

that the represenative consumer changes savings in response to temporary deviations of income from its stochastic trend …

aggregate household saving rates in Japan, China, and India. The observed age distributions help explain the contrasting saving …We present a model of household life-cycle saving decisions in order to quantify the impact of demographic changes on … saving rates, while decreasing family size increases saving for both China and India. Projecting forward, the model predicts …

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 …

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 …

The high and rising household savings rate in China is not easily reconciled with the traditional explanations that … about half of the actual increase in the household savings rate during 1990-2007 … new competitive saving motive: As the sex ratio rises, Chinese parents with a son raise their savings in a competitive …

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 …

external to household choices. When agents in the model are presented with U.S. and rest-of-world endowment data as the …

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 …