We study the role of household saving behaviour, of individual motives for saving and that of perceived liquidity … constraints in 15 Euro Area countries. The empirical analysis is based on the Household Finance and Consumption Survey, a new … harmonized data set collecting detailed information on wealth holdings, consumption and income at the household level. Since the …

population aging over the period 2000–14. While there is little doubt that household savings have decreased, the true trend … of risky assets in household portfolios increases with age and barely decreases even for retired households. The main … sources of increasing household wealth are the increasing wealth of the elderly and the increasing proportion of the wealthier …

We address the question of whether the heterogeneity in savings is partly due to differences in pension wealth across … heterogeneity in the mean savings offset depending on age, risk attitudes and country. Third, the offset follows different patterns …

We study the role of household saving behaviour, of individual motives for saving and that of perceived liquidity … constraints in 15 Euro Area countries. The empirical analysis is based on the Household Finance and Consumption Survey, a new … harmonized data set collecting detailed information on wealth holdings, consumption and income at the household level. Since the …

We study the role of household saving behaviour, of individual motives for saving and that of perceived liquidity … constraints in 15 Euro Area countries. The empirical analysis is based on the Household Finance and Consumption Survey, a new … harmonized data set collecting detailed information on wealth holdings, consumption and income at the household level. Since the …

We study the role of household saving behaviour, of individual motives for saving and that of perceived liquidity … constraints on household finances in 15 Euro Area countries. The empirical analysis is based on the Household Finance and … household level. We find evidence of some degree of homogeneity across countries with respect to saving preferences and the …