A number of economists argue that household deleveraging can exert a significant drag on the economic recovery by … household saving rates and changes in debt-to-income ratios. This relationship is however asymmetric, being statistically and … adjustment in saving rates associated with household deleveraging may widely differ across countries and may be overestimated for …

Historically high household debt in several economies is calling for a deleveraging, but according to some economists …, this paper finds evidence of a negative relationship between changes of household debt-to-income ratios and saving rates … suggest that the economic cost associated with household deleveraging may be overestimated and motivate a deleveraging via …

aggregate savings, after controlling for country-specific effects and for other saving determinants that have typically been …