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The Influence of Design Costs on Investments in Individual Savings Accounts

van de Ven, Justin - 2013

This study considers the efficacy of a tax incentivised savings scheme in context of decision making rigidities …. Analysis is based on a classical life-cycle model of savings and investment decisions, augmented with a salience cost over … participation in Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs) currently run in the UK. Calibration results indicate that salience costs help …

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The economic effects of aging in the United States and Japan

Hurd, Michael D. (ed.); Yashiro, Naohiro (contributor) - 1997

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Investment Losses and Inequality

Wenzel, Maximilian - 2019

Systematic differences along the wealth distribution in investment performance will potentially have large consequences for the level and persistence of wealth inequality. These differences in performance are hard to measure except in a few, select countries with detailed information on...

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Financial Knowledge and 401(K) Investment Performance

Clark, Robert L. - 2015

Using a unique new data set linking administrative data on investment performance and financial knowledge, we examine whether investors who are more financially knowledgeable earn more on their retirement plan investments, compared to their less sophisticated counterparts. We find that...

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Milestone Birthdays and Retirement Investment Behaviour

Gerrans, Paul - 2017

This paper investigates individuals' investment behaviour in their retirement savings surrounding milestone birthday … to make investment changes. We utilise a large Australia retirement savings fund which provides the history of investment …

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Financial Literacy, Pension Planning, and Investment Behavior - A Comparative Study between Austria and Switzerland

Aubram, Tatjana - 2016

This paper analyzes the impacts of financial literacy on the investment and pension planning behavior in Austria and Switzerland. Based on survey data of 449 individuals from Austria and Switzerland, we first analyze which socio-demographic and country-specific factors determine financial...

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IS imbalances and current account surpluses in Japan : in memory of Professor Ronald I. McKinnon

Horioka, Charles - 2015

In this paper, I find (1) that Japan showed massive and persistent current account surpluses from at least 1981 and until at least 2011, (2) that Professor Ronald McKinnon was correct, at least in the case of Japan, and that these large and persistent current account surpluses were due primarily...

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Improving access to savings through mobile money : experimental evidence from African smallholder farmers

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2019

access to formal savings. This is the first study to use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of using mobile … friends. We work with two cross-randomized interventions. The first treatment gave access to a remunerated mobile savings … primary farmer counterparts. We find that the remunerated mobile savings account raised mobile savings, but only while …

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Financial education for long-term savings and investments : review of research and literature

Atkinson, Adele; Messy, Flore-Anne; Rabinovich, Lila; … - 2015

Long-term savings and investments (LTSI) by individuals enhances their financial security while also supporting growth …

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The life and work of Martin Stuart ("Marty") Feldstein

Horioka, Charles - 2014

Martin Stuart ("Marty") Feldstein, currently George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and President Emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. (NBER), is a renowned American economist who has made important contributions to public finance, macroeconomics,...

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