households, focusing on the dramatic change of the household savings rate since 1998, from high to low savings. The literature …This paper scrutinizes the role of prolonged, expansionary monetary policy on the savings behavior of Japanese … monetary policy had a significant impact on Japan's household behavior via the interest rate channel and the redistribution …

concentration of household savings in Germany by estimating saving amounts, saving rates and shares in aggregate savings for … apparent. Over the years 2003 till 2013 we find an increase of the concentration of household savings across the income and … rates as input parameters for a macro simulation of the distribution of household incomes and savings we find that the …

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 …