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During the '90s most Latin American countries were submitted to neoliberal structural reform policies. Neoliberal …
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This paper uses a model of intergenerational accounting to simulate the intergenerational distribution of oil wealth in Venezuela. Venezuelan oil production does not seem to follow an optimal extraction path. Nevertheless, this is true if we do not consider what the government does with the...
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In the 1970s and early 1980s Paul Samuelson reformulated the conditional prediction made by Joseph Schumpeter in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy by replacing socialism with populism. According to Samuelson, "populist democracy" had attained its fullest development in the Southern Cone. He...
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-only loans do not fully use the lower instalments to increase their savings or to amortise more expensive debt. This is in … type in Denmark, and the largest difference is found for those families who have the lowest savings propensity, and those …
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This paper analyses the savings behaviour of natives and immigrants in Germany. It is argued that uncertainty about … savings. Using the German Socio-economic Panel data it is shown that, although immigrants have lower levels of savings and are … less likely to have regular savings than natives, the gap is significantly narrowed once we take loan repayments and …
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savings and investment, credit and housing booms in some countries and the allocation of resources towards less productive …
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Much of the focus of the UK pensions policy debate over the past decade has been on the adequacy (or otherwise) of private retirement saving. In this paper, we present the first assessment of the optimality of the retirement resources of English couple households born in the 1940s. Here,...
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Using a model where households can save in either a safe asset or in an illiquid, tax-advantaged pension, we assess the extent to which those who recently reached the state pension age in the UK have saved optimally for retirement. The policy environment specified closely matches that prevailing...
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The paper seeks to add to the existing literature on aggregate and private savings by focusing on transition economies …, aggregate and private savings are driven by almost the same forces – this is the central focus of the paper. The most important …
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