BEA’s national economic statistics provide a comprehensive view of U.S. production, consumption, investment, exports and imports, and income and saving. These statistics are best known by summary measures such as gross domestic product (GDP), corporate profits, personal income and spending,...

(...)Note that no unique, completed theory can be applied to life insurance saving, with different social-economic system across countries, inference in terms of those factors influencing the saving through life insurance in some industrial countries might not be suitable to others....

Private wealth holdings are likely to become an increasingly important determinant in the jobexit decision of elderly workers. Net wealth may correlate with worker’s characteristics thatalso determine the exit out of a job. It is therefore important to include a rich set of...

In der Beratung zu Rentenversicherungen spielt man in der Regel mit zwei Daten: den Beiträgen,die ein Anleger monatlich zahlen möchte, und den zu erwartenden Renten. Entweder, einKunde gibt die Sparbeiträge an, und erhält als Ergebnis einen Betrag für Garantierente...

This paper describes portfolio choices of German households in the 1980s and 1990s, presenting stylized facts and analyzing recent trends in asset ownership rates and asset shares on the basis of financial accounts and survey data...

The “Golden Age” of post-war European economic growth has witnessedextraordinary changes not only in the economic, but also in the social andcultural outlook of Western European societies. Eric Hobsbawm’s statementthat “[h]istorians of the twentieth century in the third millennium will...