across states shows that the rise in top income shares can explain almost all of the accumulation of household debt held as a … financial asset by the household sector. Since the Great Recession, the saving glut of the rich has been financing government …

A large fraction of households have very little savings buffer and are therefore vulnerable to financial shocks. This … link to a personal web page where they can start or adjust an automatic savings plan. However, analyzing detailed bank data …, we find no treatment effect on actual savings, neither in the short run nor in the long run. Our null findings are quite …

households, focusing on the dramatic change of the household savings behavior since 1998, from high to low savings. Existing …This paper scrutinizes the role of prolonged, expansionary monetary policy on the savings behavior of Japanese … connected to monetary policy. It finds that monetary policy has had a significant impact on Japan's household behavior via three …

paper examines if there is a wealth effect of house prices on savings using household-level longitudinal data from the …Housing property is the most important position in a household's wealth portfolio. Even though there is strong evidence … savings in response to unanticipated house price shocks, whereas old households only hardly respond to house price changes. We …

English Longitudinal Study of Aging, an optimal level of wealth is calculated for each household. This is then compared to the …

We examine the household consumption response to fluctuations in income and uncertainty, exploiting a large panel …, both household-specific income uncertainty and local labor market uncertainty depress consumption spending. We also find …

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and the Republic of Korea using long-term time series … data for the 1975–2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the premarital sex ratio on the household saving … to females) has a significant impact on the household saving rate in both India and the Republic of Korea, even after …