household saving behavior in two countries in each region (Mexico, Peru, Thailand and Taiwan). We make four contributions. First …, we provide the first comparisons of savings in these two regions at the micro level using synthetic cohort techniques …. Second, rather than focusing only on total household saving, as is common in the literature, we disaggregate the population …

This paper analyzes whether China's investment and savings rates are too high by considering the rate of return to … investment and other factors. It also investigates the reasons for the rapid increase in the savings rate by using various …

-2007. We find that, firstly, rising personal inequality leads to a decrease of household net lending and the current account …, ceteris paribus. The effect is strong for top household income shares, but much weaker for the Gini coefficient of household …