In this paper, I conduct an analysis of consumption and saving behavior in Japan, looking both at trends over time and …

In this paper, I summarize Albert Ando's seminal and ingenious work on the saving behavior of the elderly in Japan and … that the retired elderly in Japan dissave, in accordance with the life cycle hypothesis of saving, and that all of the … available data and evidence suggest that the life cycle hypothesis of saving is highly applicable in the case of Japan …

included in the scenarios of possible changes of the household's situation in the future. These scenarios cover all permissible …

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 … the age structure of the population on the saving rate, the saving behavior of retired households, saving motives, the …

In this paper, we analyze the saving motives of European households using micro-data from the Household Finance and … Consumption Survey (HFCS), which is conducted by the European Central Bank. We find that the rank ordering of saving motives … most important saving motive of European households when the proportion of households saving for each motive is used as the …

This paper presents data on Japan’s household saving rate, considers the reasons for Japan’s high household saving rate … in the past and the reasons for the recent decline therein, projects future trends in Japan’s household saving rate, and … consider the implications of my findings. It finds that Japan’s high household saving rate was a temporary phenomenon and that …

. -- Household saving ; Saving incentives ; Retirement ; Riester scheme ; Coarsened exact matching …-Economic Panel and the SAVE study indicate that private saving was hardly affected by the introduction of the Riester scheme …

From 1995 to 2005, the average urban household saving rate in China rose by 8 percentage points, to about one quarter … of disposable income. We use household-level data to explain why households are postponing consumption despite rapid … profile of savings has an unusual U-shaped pattern, with saving rates being the highest among the youngest and oldest …