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Are Americans more Altruistic than the Japanese Comparison of Saving and Bequest Motives.

Horioka, C.Y.; Fujisaki, H.; Watanabe, W.; Kouno, T. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 2000

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

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Do the Aged Dissave in Japan? Evidence from Micro Data.

Horioka, C.Y.; Kasuga, N.; Yamazaki, K.; Watanabe, W. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 1996

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005780359

A U.S.-Japan Comparison of the Importance and Determinants of Retirement Saving.

Horioka, C.Y.; Okui, M. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 1998

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 …

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Luxury and Wealth Accumulation.

Ikeda, S. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 2001

This paper develops a model of luxury goods by incorporating weakly non-separable, recursive preferences. In a two-good framework, a quasi-luxury is de ned as a good whose marginal rate of substitution is increasing in wealth. Under certain conditions, it is identical to a luxury good. Consumers...

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Why Do People Save? A Micro-Analysis of Motives for Household Saving in Japan

Horioka, C.Y.; Watanabe, W. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 1996

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 …

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Habits, Costly Investment, and Current Account Dynamics

Ikeda, S.; Gombi, I. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 1995

Using a small country model with habit-forming consumers and costly investment, we analyze equilibrium dynamics of the economy and derive empirical and welfare implications. The model can mimic some stylized facts: (i) a temporary increase in fiscal spending always deteriorates the current...

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Capital Gains in Japan: Their Magnitude and Imact on Consumption.

Horioka, C.Y. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 1995

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Saving Motives in Japan.

Ohtake, F.; Horioka, C.Y. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 1995

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Trends and Determinants of Japanese Saving Rates

Ogawa, K.; Abe, K. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 1998

We project the future trends of the japanese saving rates with special emphasis on an analysis of the consumption and … saving behavior of the household sector. Notable feature of our modeling is that savings are divided into financial and real …

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The Effects of Demographics on the Japanese Housing Market.

Ohtake, F.; Shintani, M. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 1995

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