rational and irrational motives to save money, answers to questions about the effects of saving liquid money on labor supply …, illiquid saving and education, and examines the inherent cost of saving cash. The main findings are the following. The rational … insurance motive to save money increases total savings by replacing deposit saving more than one-to-one. The share of deposit …

saving or informal care. This contribution predicts crowding-out effects for both private saving and informal care for policy … of inheritance. These effects result from the interaction of a parent who decides on the amount of saving in retirement …

Low saving rates combined with low effective retirement age herald old-age poverty. This paper examines the preferred … a first-best strategy, we explore determinants of supplementary saving with binary logistic models; as a second …

standard model, which showed strong demand for life annuities), and annuities are rarely purchased; (2) optimal consumption …

Guarantees are often seen as the key characteristics of pension saving products, but securing them can become costly … deal with the question of how costly the typical types of guarantees are, in the sense that they reduce a pension saving …