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East Asia and Latin America have diverged in several dimensions in the past there decades. This paper compares households saving behavior in two countries in each region (Mexico, Peru, Thailand and Taiwan).
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This paper tries to empirically disentangle some of the puzzles about Chileans savings behavior with data that span the … 1960-1995 period. In section 2, we check whether the most commonly stylized facts concerning savings in the world's recent …
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behavior. We find that a one percentage point increase in job loss risk increases liquid savings by roughly 1.2 - 2.0 percent …
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I investigate the importance of personal savings rate in the cross-sectional pricing of individual stocks. I estimate … each stock's monthly-varying sensitivity to the personal savings rate and show that stocks in the lowest savings rate beta … quintile generate 6% more annualized risk-adjusted return compared to stocks in the highest savings beta quintile. I find that …
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rest of the world is that the rising aggregate saving has reflected high savings rates in all three sectors - corporate …
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The study investigated the dynamic interaction between savings, investment and economic growth in Nigeria within the …, should ensure that the savings with deposit money banks are properly channelled to long-term investment. The study further … attention to the dynamic interaction between GDS, and GDI by ensuring that the savings generated are properly channelled to …
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This paper examines the impact of public pensions on saving, life insurance and annuity markets in an adverse selection economy.
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In this paper, we use improved techniques and updated data from Taiwan to see if, after all, it is possible to tell a story in which demographic change has large effects on saving. We do this, not because we have any reason to revise our previous empirical results-indeed they are replicated on...
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We present theoretical and empirical results on consumption during an unemployment spell.
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Since Brown (1952), habit formation models of consumption have assumed that memory loss is a univariate process. This paper dispenses with this assumption to consider habit modification in consumption. A model is proposed where household credit depletes the habit stock and motivates consumers...
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