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. …

consumption (such as GDP, household incomes, household saving rates, household wealth, and employment conditions) in the Group of … private consumption has been due to the stagnation of household income and of household wealth and the relative stability of … the household saving rate. -- Consumption ; private consumption ; GDP ; economic growth ; households ; saving ; wealth …

-constrained, (2) that household assets and the husband’s educational attainment are the most important determinants of whether or not … a household is borrowing-constrained, and (3) that the Euler equation implication is rejected for both the full sample …

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 …