literature on household saving behavior in Japan (with emphasis on the author's own past research) to shed light on whether or … hypothesis, which is undoubtedly the most widely used theoretical model of household behavior in economics, and then survey the … not the selfish life-cycle model applies in the case of Japan. In particular, we survey the literature on the impact of …

) countries and also broken down by the age group of the household head. We find that pre-retirement households (households with a … head in the 50-59 age group) in Japan do not have inordinate amounts of debt and that their financial health is … they could previously. We therefore need to monitor the borrowing behavior of this cohort over time as the Bank of Japan …

This paper presents data on Japan’s household saving rate, considers the reasons for Japan’s high household saving rate … in the past and the reasons for the recent decline therein, projects future trends in Japan’s household saving rate, and … consider the implications of my findings. It finds that Japan’s high household saving rate was a temporary phenomenon and that …

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and the Republic of Korea using longterm time series … data for the 1975-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the premarital sex ratio on the household saving … to females) has a significant impact on the household saving rate in both India and the Republic of Korea, even after …

In this paper, we analyze the saving motives of European households using micro-data from the Household Finance and …-quarter of total household wealth in Europe provides further corroboration for this finding. …