Der traditionelle Indikator für die Messung des wirtschaftlichen Wohlstands eines Landes ist das Bruttoinlandsprodukt (BIP). Das BIP misst jedoch nicht das Einkommen, dass die Bürger eines Landes in der übrigen Welt erzielen. Die im Ausland erzielten Einkommen werden durch das...

The purpose of this paper is to conduct a theoretical and empirical analysis of the nexus between long-term care insurance (LTCI), formal care, informal (family) care, and bequests. In our empirical analysis, we use micro data from the Japan Household Panel Survey on Consumer Preferences and...

In this paper, we analyze the saving motives of European households using micro-data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS), which is conducted by the European Central Bank. We find that the rank ordering of saving motives differs greatly depending on what criterion is used to...

Die Sparer in Deutschland zeigten sich bis Anfang 2020 durch die Niedrigzinspolitik der Europäischen Zentralbank verunsichert. Vor dem Hintergrund einer anhaltenden Niedrigzinsphase stellt sich die Frage, wie sich diese bisher auf die Entwicklung des Geldvermögens der Haushalte ausgewirkt hat....

Using a lifecycle model of consumption, saving and portfolio choice combined with linked survey and administrative data on wealth and lifetime earnings we evaluate measures of retirement preparedness. We estimate heterogeneous discount factors for households and compare these estimates of their...

This paper investigates whether assuming that households possess advance information on their income shocks helps to overcome the difficulty of standard models to understand consumption insurance in the US. As our main result, we find that the quantitative relevance of advance information...

This paper is devoted to the role of information context in the dynamics of consumption/savings decisions. The deviations from the traditional model of rational expectations are investigated, and the hypotheses of the «rational inattention» are tested. The basis for the study was a selection...