We investigate retirement saving decisions through interviews and a broad survey in four countries that investigates what influences changes in savings behaviour. We identify a number of previously unidentified factors that are associated with increased savings. We find that approximately 40% of...

We find a positive and significant relation between forecasted idiosyncratic volatility andreturns in a large international database covering 57 countries with over three million firmmonthobservations from July 1995 to June 2016. Our empirical results reveal substantialcross-country variation in...