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Is business saving really none of our business?

Bebczuk, Ricardo; Cavallo, Eduardo A. - 2014

This paper investigates the relevance of business saving for private saving and investment around the world by constructing and exploiting a broad international, unbalanced panel of 64 countries over 1990-2012. The paper shows that businesses are the main contributors to private and national...

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Informality, saving and wealth inequality in Colombia

Granda Carvajal, Catalina; Hamann S., Franz A. - 2015

and how these might influence aggregate savings and wealth inequality. This paper aims to fill that gap by examining both …

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Wider boundaries : the welfare state and international remittances

Amegashie, J. Atsu; Batu, Michael - 2015

Recent theoretical work shows that precautionary savings increase in response to an increase in first-order risk. In … welfare effect of future income uncertainty. We build a model of remittances and savings under income uncertainty and show …

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The national wealth of Sweden, 1810 - 2014

Waldenström, Daniel - 2015

This study presents a new database, the Swedish National Wealth Database (SNWD), which contains annual data on private, public and national wealth and sectoral saving rates in Sweden over the past two centuries. The paper reviews previous investigations of national wealth, compares their...

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A nonbehavioral theory of saving

Nikiforos, Michalis - 2015

We present a model where the saving rate of the household sector, especially households at the bottom of the income distribution, becomes the endogenous variable that adjusts in order for full employment to be maintained over time. An increase in income inequality and the current account deficit...

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Understanding the determinants of household saving : micro evidence for Latin America

Bebczuk, Ricardo; Gasparini, Leonardo; Garbero, Noelia; … - 2015

This study centers on the household saving rate in Latin America by constructing a new database from 27 household surveys in 10 countries. At the statistical level, about half of the households present negative saving. This fact, coupled with the discrepancy with national accounts data, suggests...

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The National Wealth of Sweden : 1810 - 2014

Waldenström, Daniel - 2015

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IS imbalances and current account surpluses in Japan : in memory of Professor Ronald I. McKinnon

Horioka, Charles - 2015

In this paper, I find (1) that Japan showed massive and persistent current account surpluses from at least 1981 and until at least 2011, (2) that Professor Ronald McKinnon was correct, at least in the case of Japan, and that these large and persistent current account surpluses were due primarily...

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A comparison of saving rates : micro evidence from seventeen Latin American and Caribbean countries

Gandelman, Néstor - 2015

Using micro data on expenditure and income for 17 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries, this paper presents stylized facts on saving behavior by age, education, income and place of residence. Counterfactual saving rates are computed by imposing the saving behavior, the population...

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House prices, second mortgages and household savings : an empirical investigation for the Netherlands, 1987 - 1994

Rouwendal, Jan; Alessie, Rob - 2002

paper we study the effect of this developmenton the demand for second mortgages and on the savings of Dutch households. We …) the savings of renters that may be considered as would-beowners. We find a significant effect of home equity on the demand … for second mortgages.Savings of homeowners decrease when house prices accelerate. We find no evidence that inc …

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