liabilities for Europe, the USA and Japan, (2) analyse the change in the composition of household gross and net wealth of these …. The paper then discusses global and detailed compared trends of household wealth between countries ... …

This paper analyzes the determinants of the wealth decumulation behavior of the retired elderly in Japan using unique … bequest motives in explaining the lower than expected rates of wealth decumulation of the retired elderly. Taken together, our … expected wealth decumulation rate of the retired elderly, at least in the case of Japan, even though both precautionary saving …

This paper is a critique of the literature on transfer wealth accumulation in Japan during the postwar period. The … emphasis is on selected works in two areas that are closely related: the accumulation of wealth by the elderly in extended … families in Japan, and the distribution of wealth within Japanese cohorts by household composition. The central point of …