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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458117
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486460
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602832
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602911
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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/10008602982
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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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466547
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486486
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639247
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670059