adjustment dynamics in line with the historical facts on savings and economic growth in Europe from the High Middle Ages to today …. Along a virtuous cycle of development more wealth leads to more patience, which leads to more savings and even higher wealth …. Savings rates and income growth rates are thus jointly increasing during the process of development until they converge …

income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … are drawn from the CentER Savings Survey, which consists of a representative and a highest-income-decile sample of Dutch … households. The survey contains rich information on house-hold wealth, pension rights and savings attitudes. A result of the …

myopia may justify public pensions but never alongside positive private savings. With sufficient myopia, co-existence of …

-migrant. Although migrants lose their original social networks whilst overseas, savings and human capital accumulation acquired abroad …

-cycle framework how individuals respond to recessions. Our focus is on the sharp increase in savings rates that have been observed in … times. We show that the rise in the aggregate savings ratio is driven by increases in uncertainty, rather than tighening of …