Since the beginnings of the eighties house prices in the Netherlands haveincreased steadily and considerably. In this … paper we study the effect of this developmenton the demand for second mortgages and on the savings of Dutch households. We …) the savings of renters that may be considered as would-beowners. We find a significant effect of home equity on the demand …

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 …

-person households (e.g. with a husband and a wife) from the Dutch CentER Savings Survey, we find that wives find saving for old age more …

We study the negative correlation between natural resource-abundance and long-term income focusing on the savings-investment … the issue. In this model, savings adjust downwards to income from natural resources, and investment in capital contributes … income through savings and investment. Natural resources have two counteracting effects on income. In the short term …

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between financial liberalization on the one hand and saving, investment … investment (although there are some signs to believe that liberalization may actually reduce rather than increase domestic saving …), whereas it is positively associated with private investment, as well as with per capita GDP growth. We find a negative …

Netherlands should be more responsive to economic changes. On the other hand, there is unlikely to be such a divergence in capital … dynamics as investment conditions are similar. Our results are consistent with this hypothesis. Furthermore, there is no …

savings. Is saving behaviour in EU-accession countries now driven by the same forces as it is in market economies? We use a …