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Chapter 13. Social Security and Public Insurance
Börsch-Supan, A.; Härtl, K.; Leite, D.N. - In: Handbook of the economics of population aging : Volume 1, (pp. 781-863). 2016
When the challenges of population aging are being debated, the uncertain future of pension systems is a topic of high priority and large controversy. The aim of this chapter is not to provide a “consensus view” on social security and public insurance in aging populations but to put structure...
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Financial literacy : implications for retirement security and the financial marketplace
Mitchell, Olivia S. (ed.); Lusardi, Annamaria (ed.) - 2011
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The importance of financial literacy : opening a new field
Lusardi, Annamaria; Mitchell, Olivia S. - In: The journal of economic perspectives : a journal of the … 37 (2023) 4, pp. 137-154
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International Evidence on the Determinants of Private Saving
Masson, Paul R. - 2006
A broad set of possible determinants of private saving behavior is examined, using data for a large sample of industrial and developing countries. Both time-series and cross-section estimates are obtained. Results suggest that there is a partial offset on private saving of changes in public...
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Foreign direct investment and liberalization policies in Pakistan : an empirical analysis
Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali; Hye, Qazi Muhammad Adnan - In: Cogent economics & finance 2 (2014) 1, pp. 1-12
To enhance the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) and ultimately to increase the economic growth, the countries have implemented a variety of financial and trade liberalization policies in the last three decades. Pakistan also initiated such type of policies. This study makes an analysis...
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The relationship between savings and economic growth in countries with different level of economic development
Misztal, Piotr - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 2, pp. 17-29
The aim of this paper is to analyze the cause and effect relationship between economic growth and savings in advanced … the existence of one-way casual relationship between gross domestic savings and gross domestic product in the case of … relationship between gross domestic product and gross domestic savings both in developed economies and developing and transition …
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Buffer-Stock Saving in a Krusell-Smith World
Carroll, Christopher D. - 2015
A large body of microeconomic evidence supports Friedman (1957)'s proposition that household income can be reasonably well described as having both transitory and permanent components. We show how to modify the widely-used macroeconomic model of Krusell and Smith (1998) to accommodate such a...
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HIV/AIDS Contamination Risk, Savings and the Welfare Effects of Diagnostic Testing
Lammers, Judith; Meijdam, A. C.; Verbon, Harrie A. A. - 2007
consumption after being tested HIV positive. The paper describes different effects on aggregate savings according to different … stages of the epidemic. We show that the HIV epidemic decreases savings if especially young individuals are (perceived to be …) affected by the virus, but may increase savings if individuals perceive a sizable probability of getting infected later in life …
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Earmarking and Partitioning : Increasing Saving by Low-Income Households
Soman, Dilip - 2010
This research examines the effects of earmarking money on savings by low-income consumers. In particular, the authors … test two interventions that are designed to enhance the effects of earmarking: a) using a visual reminder of the savings …. In addition, the presence of the visual reminder increases the savings rate. The authors conclude with implications for …
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Determinants and Costs of Current Account Reversals under Heterogeneity and Serial Correlation
Aßmann, Christian - 2007
Recent empirical evidence suggests that reversing current account balances imply costly adjustment processes leading to reduced economic growth. Using large panel data sets to analyze determinants and costs of reversals asks for controls of heterogeneity among countries. This paper contributes a...
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