Search Results - subject:"Life-Cycle-Model"

Economic growth and savings transition in Asia : unity in diversity

Athukorala, Premachandra; Wanissa Suanin - 2025

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Heterogeneity in expectations and house price dynamics

Ludwig, Alexander; Mankart, Jochen; Quintana, Jorge; … - 2024

Expectations are central for housing decisions and heterogeneity in expectations is a robust feature of survey data. We study the implications of heterogeneity in house price growth expectations for the level of house prices. We feed the joint empirical distributions of income, wealth and...

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Why do Europeans save? Micro-evidence from the household finance and consumption survey

Horioka, Charles; Ventura, Luigi - 2024

is the saving motive that most exemplifies the selfish life-cycle model, is of dominant importance in Europe strongly … because social safety nets are not fully adequate. Our finding that saving motives that are consistent with the selfish life-cycle … model as well as saving motives that are consistent with the altruism model are important in Europe implies that the two …

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