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Chile: The road to joy is paved with obstacles
Yajima, Giuliano Toshiro - In: PSL quarterly review 75 (2022) 302, pp. 285-297
The second round of the Presidential elections in Chile marked a swing in the local political scenario. The coalition …
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How important are remittances to savings? : evidence from the Latin America and the Caribbean countries
Nnyanzi, John Bosco; Kilimani, Nicholas; Oryema, John Bosco - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-37
remittances to savings. On average, an increase in inward remittances by 1% leads to about 0.10% increase in savings ceteris … case. Quite outstanding here is the observation of the detrimental role of remittances on savings in the long-run once … direct investment (FDI), and foreign aid were found to be important moderators of the remittances-savings linkage. For the …
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Household portfolios and financial preparedness for retirement
Crawford, Rowena; O'Dea, Cormac - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 11 (2020) 2, pp. 637-670
to evaluate the adequacy of retirement savings. We find first that the specification of the model's asset structure …
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The relationship between savings and economic growth in countries with different level of economic development
Misztal, Piotr - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 2, pp. 17-29
The aim of this paper is to analyze the cause and effect relationship between economic growth and savings in advanced … the existence of one-way casual relationship between gross domestic savings and gross domestic product in the case of … relationship between gross domestic product and gross domestic savings both in developed economies and developing and transition …
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Effect of interest rate on economic performance : evidence from Islamic and non-Islamic economies
Mushtaq, Saba; Siddiqui, Danish Ahmed - In: Financial innovation : FIN 2 (2016) 9, pp. 1-14
Background: Saving and investment are two of the most important tools for economic growth. The interest rate has always been considered an important determinant of saving and investment. However, according to Islamic teachings, riba or earning interest on saving or investment is forbidden, and...
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Reverse mortgage participation in the United States : evidence from a national study
Chatterjee, Swarn - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 4 (2016) 1, pp. 1-10
This paper uses the most recent wave of a nationally representative dataset to examine the factors associated with elderly homeowners' decision to obtain reverse mortgage loans. The findings of this study suggest that very few homeowners participated in the reverse mortgage market, and...
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MPCs in an economic crisis : spending, saving and private transfers
Crossley, Thomas F.; Fisher, Paul; Levell, Peter; Low, … - In: Journal of public economics plus 2 (2021), pp. 1-13
MPCs were directly elicited from a representative sample of UK adults in July 2020 using receipt of a hypothetical unanticipated, one-time income payment. Reported MPCs are modest, around 11% on average. They are higher, but still modest, for individuals in households with high current needs....
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Do credit supply and unemployment risk matter for household saving? : evidence from Poland
Kłopocka, Aneta Maria; Wilczyński, Ryszard - In: Contemporary economics 15 (2021) 4, pp. 375-392
This paper contributes to the literature on the effects of uncertainty on household saving – a long-standing and extensively explored topic yet leaving a number of issues inconclusive. It concentrates on the labor income uncertainty by addressing saving against unemployment risk in terms of...
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Mobile financial services and financial inclusion : is it a boon for savings mobilization?
Ouma, Shem Alfred; Odongo, Teresa Maureen; Were, Maureen - In: Review of development finance 7 (2017) 1, pp. 29-35
by examining whether the pervasive use of mobile telephony to provide financial services is a boon for savings … convenience with which such transactions can be undertaken using a mobile phone. Both forms of savings, that is, basic mobile … phone savings stored in the phone and bank integrated mobile savings are likely to be promoted by use of mobile phones. Thus …
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Does social security crowd out private savings? : the case of Bismarck’s system of social insurance
Lehmann-Hasemeyer, Sibylle H.; Streb, Jochen - 2017
article closes this gap by analyzing the development of Prussian savings banks’ deposits in the late 19th century with the … savings considerably. As counterfactual voluntary savings would have been far from sufficient, however, Bismarck’s social …
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