This paper investigates empirically why Japan’s household savings rate fell in the 1990s. We constructed an economic …’s household savings rate. Our simulation analysis demonstrated that if the proportion of liquidity-constrained households in the … 1990s had stayed at the level as that of the late 1980s, the household savings rate would have increased by four percent …

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 …