rate; and fourth, the 2004 public pension reform alleviated the intergenerational inequities of Japan’s public pension … ; aging ; household ; household saving ; intergenerational inequity ; Japan ; pension reform ; pensions ; population aging … ; public pensions ; public pension reform ; saving ; social security …

stance, global real interest rates, distorted incentives in credit markets, and financial innovation created the mix of … ; savings glut ; monetary policy ; policy coordination …

persistence. -- Precautionary savings ; unemployment insurance ; long-term unemployment ; income uncertainty …

higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of … marriage and with lower savings rates in the presence of diseconomies of marriage. In the context of traditional gender roles … traditional gender roles and marital status to understanding cross-country variation in gender differentials in savings behavior …

the United States, we find that 12 percent of aggregate savings is accumulated to finance and self-insure against old … important role in the savings of the wealthy and on aggregate. Moreover, we find that the aggregate and distributional effects … system. -- out-of-pocket medical expenses ; nursing home costs ; means-tested social insurance ; life-cycle savings ; wealth …

asymmetries of savings out of factor incomes. This generalized model helps to shed new light on a recent debate concerning the … the particular savings hypothesis. However, if savings out of capital income are substantial so that a certain threshold …