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Can the Private Annuity Market Provide Secure Retirement Income?

Schrager, Allison - 2004

Annuity premiums are often assumed to be constant, although they can be expected to vary with the yield curve. Variations in premiums will become an important public policy issue as defined-contribution (DC) pension plans play an increasingly prominent role in providing retirement income. As DC...

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U.S. Private Saving and the Tax Treatment of IRA/401(k)s : A Re-examination Using Household Survey Data

Thomas, Alun - 1996

share of assets held in the form of pension savings, at the expense of saving in the form of housing equity. Some evidence … also was found to suggest that the tax treatment of pension savings similarly affected the flow of saving. In particular …

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Household deleveraging and saving rates : a cross-country analysis

Bouis, Romain - 2021

Historically high household debt in several economies is calling for a deleveraging, but according to some economists, this adjustment can slow GDP growth by weighing on consumption. Using a sample of advanced and emerging market economies, this paper finds evidence of a negative relationship...

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Mortgage Market Development, Savings, and Growth

Li, Xiaowei - 2001

Jappelli and Pagano (1994) argues that tightening the borrowing constraints in the mortgage markets promotes savings … savings and growth rates to fall. Therefore, for countries with scarce mortgage availability like those in the Middle East …, expanding the mortgage markets to some extent is conducive to savings and growth …

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Aging, Savings, and Pensions in the Group of Seven Countries: 1980-2025

International Monetary Fund - 1989

the elderly. This study suggests that these demographic trends may lead to a decline in the G-7 private savings rate after …

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Demographics, old-age transfers and the current account

Dao, Mai; Jones, Callum - 2018

Building on the evolving literature on the topic, this paper reviews the relationship between demographics and long-run capital flows in both theory and in the data. For this purpose, we develop a two region overlapping generations model where countries differ in their population growth and...

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Demographics, pension systems and the saving-investment balance

Chai, Hua; Kim, Jun-il - 2018

This paper studies the effect of demographic change on national saving, global interest rates, and international capital flows, focusing on the role of the public pension system. We develop a small open economy overlapping generations model to illustrate the channels through which demographic...

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Effectiveness of fiscal incentives for R&D : quasi-experimental evidence

Guceri, Irem; Liu, Li - 2017

With growing academic and policy interest in research and development (R and D) tax incentives, the question about their effectiveness has become ever more relevant. In the absence of an exogenous policy reform, the simultaneous determination of companies' tax positions and their R and D...

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Macroeconomic Uncertainty, Precautionary Savings and the Current Account

Ostry, Jonathan David - 1992

incorporate the effects of macroeconomic uncertainty on private savings behavior. It is shown that the greater the uncertainty in … savings and, other things equal, the larger is the current account surplus. Empirical support for the model is found using …

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Saving, Investment, and the Regional Current Account : An Analysis of Canadian, British, and German Regions

Thomas, Alun - 1993

The relationship between regional saving and investment is examined to measure the extent of capital mobility. The relationship between total regional saving and investment is significantly negative in Canada and the United Kingdom, in contrast to the significant positive relationship found...

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