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 …

literature on household saving behavior in Japan (with emphasis on the author's own past research) to shed light on whether or … hypothesis, which is undoubtedly the most widely used theoretical model of household behavior in economics, and then survey the … not the selfish life-cycle model applies in the case of Japan. In particular, we survey the literature on the impact of …