This paper estimates the impact of policy variables on the per-capita Business Sector GDP in Israel in the framework of an extended neo-classical model. The methodology assesses the impact of policy variables on the components of the production function: factors of production (capital and...

Israeli micro and macro data indicate that consumption smoothing is limited and thus pension savings increase private and national savings. Since private savings rates are, to a great extent, unequal across different income groups, saving is almost exclusively concentrated in the upper two...