In this paper, we analyze a variety of data on saving motives, bequest motives, and bequest division from the …

In this paper, we analyze a variety of data on saving motives, bequest motives, and bequest division from the …

This paper estimates the contribution of net saving for each of twelve motives to overall household saving in Japan … using micro data from Japanese Government survey and finds that the net saving for the retirement and precautionary motives …, both of which are consistent with the life-cycle model, are of dominant importance. It also finds that the saving motives …

In this paper, we conduct a U.S.- Japan comparison of the importance of retirement saving and of the determinants … thereof using micro data from the "U.S.- Japan Comparison Survey of Saving," a binational household survey conducted in 1996 …

In this paper, we analyse the saving behavior of the aged in Japan using household-level data from a 1992 survey …

empirical studies at micro level are based on Euler equation, there have been few to estimate the household consumption function … household consumption function. We fail to find evidence to support forward looking behavior over long horizon. …

We analyze the life cycle consumption choice model for multiple goods, focusing on the distinction between durables and … good, the optimal consumption plan is not myopic. Instead, it depends on past as well as on (expected) future prices. The … consumption of perishables ceases to be myopic as well. The solutions show that durables play an important part in intertemporal …

In this paper, we analyse the saving behavior of the aged in Japan using household-level data from a 1992 survey …

In this paper, we conduct a U.S.- Japan comparison of the importance of retirement saving and of the determinants … thereof using micro data from the "U.S.- Japan Comparison Survey of Saving," a binational household survey conducted in 1996 …