Experimental research done by behavioural economist points out human behavioural “heuristics and biases”, that often result in less than optimal individual economic decisions. These experiments cover a wide range of economic subjects, but one that we found most important to our society is...

This study identifies factors that influence the saving behaviour of salaried individuals in Thailand. The results of the univariate and multivariate analyses show that income, age, marital status, number of children and educational level have a positive influence on the individuals' average...

We study the effect of further public caregiving subsidies (and insurance expansions to cover long-term care) on savings and saving behaviour. Specifically, weexamine the unique progressive introduction of a universal public long-term care subsidy (Sistema para la Autonomía y Atención a la...

The article presents households' motivations for saving, including - in particular - saving for retirement. It defines the notion of goals with reference to a more frequently described notion of motives. On the basis of the authors' own empirical research results, the relationship between saving...

The purpose of the paper is to highlight that funeral costs matter in households' decisions. In particular they do matter in the understanding of the impact of HIV/AIDS on households' wealth in developing countries. Nevertheless the magnitude of the implications on households through the channel...

I förestående undersökning görs ett upprepat tvärsnitt av de svenska hushållens finansiella beteenden (1993 - 1999). Förutom nödvändigheten att följa segmentutvecklingen över tiden, syftar studien också att närmare undersöka hushållens mål för sitt sparande och sin...

Saving decisions are complex, since there are many concurrent motives for saving a portion of one’s income. However, while the existing literature covers all of these motives, most contributions select only one of them as a focus and relegate the others to the background by making simplifying...

Strotz (1956) first suggested that individuals are more impatient when making short-run tradeoffs than long-run ones. Many experimental studies supports his conjecture. Motivated by recent evidence from the British Department of Work and Pension (2006), this paper applies this behavioral...

One of the most common reasons for people to save is in order to pay for their care in later life. However, the effect of long-term care subsidies on savings is far from clear. In this paper we take advantage of a policy intervention to study the effect on savings and savings behaviour of the...

This paper analyses the relationship between dispositional optimism and stock investments. Data are drawn from the second wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Dispositional optimism is found to be a relevant predictor of the ownership of stocks as well as of the share...