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Inflation expectations have been of great interest to economists because they predict how agents in an economy set prices and react to changes in various macroeconomic variables. The existence of Keynesian liquidity traps in Japan and the United States have helped emphasize the importance of...
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With states facing tightening Medicaid budgets, the high cost of financing long-term care for the elderly through Medicaid has prompted proposals to make private long-term care insurance (LTCI) more affordable through tax incentives. The effectiveness of tax incentives for stimulating LTCI...
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considered three adverseimpacts of population growth on savings and capital formation........ …
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Unlike the prediction of a frictionless open economy model, long-term average savings and investment rates are highly … that the calibrated model with both frictions produces a savings–investment correlation and a volume of capital flows close …
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changes in household savings are negatively related to exogenous income shocks, with this relationship strongest for low … wealth households. Only models of consumption which include precautionary savings motives can explain why poorer households … both reduce their consumption and increase their savings in response to an exogenous decline in income. …
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This paper examines the impact of declines in adult mortality on growth in an overlapping generations model. With public education and imperfect annuity markets, a decline in mortality affects growth through three channels. First, it raises the saving rate and thereby increases the rate of...
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(1990). This particular feature enables us to isolate the effect of risk aversion on precautionary savings. Furthermore, I … intertemporal distortions on precautionary savings in finite and infinite horizon models of a small open economy. The effects of … of shocks on precautionary savings and verify that these are qualitatively identical to the ones observed with CES …
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-period dynamic model that under certain conditions nonbank intermediation increases an economy's savings mobilization and contributes … to banks in financial intermediation, increased the savings mobilization, and in the end contributed to the economic …
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This paper considers savings, investment and economic growth for India using annual time series data for the period …
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