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We consider a neoclassical growth model with quasi-hyperbolic discounting under Kantian optimization: each temporal self acts in a way that they would like every future self to act. We introduce the notion of a Kantian policy as an outcome of Kantian optimization in a given class of policies. We...
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In this paper, we attempt to shed light on whether Japanese households are rational or if their behavior is influenced …
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the age structure of the population on the saving rate, the saving behavior of retired households, saving motives, the …
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In this paper, we analyze the saving motives of European households using micro-data from the Household Finance and … most important saving motive of European households when the proportion of households saving for each motive is used as the … criterion to rank them but that the retirement motive is the most important saving motive of European households if the …
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We estimate the degree of "stickiness" in aggregate consumption growth (sometimes interpreted as reflecting consumption habits) for thirteen advanced economies. We find that, after controlling for measurement error, consumption growth has a high degree of autocorrelation, with a stickiness...
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