Public policies and household saving
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Public policies and household saving
(A National Bureau of Economic Research project report)
University of Chicago Press, 1994
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The declining US national savings rate has prompted economists and policymakers to ask, should the federal government encourage household savings and, if so, through which policies? In order to understand saving programmes, this volume provides a description of savings policies in the G-7 industrialized nations: the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom. Each of the seven chapters focuses on one country and addresses a core set of topics: types of accumulated household savings and debt; tax policies toward capital income; savings in the form of public and private pensions, including Social Security and similar programmes; savings programmes that receive special tax treatment; and saving through insurance. This summary of the saving incentives of the G-7 nations should be useful reading for for policymakers and academics interested in personal saving behaviour.
Table of Contents
Introduction James M. Poterba 1 Government Saving Incentives in the United States James M. Poterba 2 Government Incentives and Household Saving in Canada John B.Burbidge and James B. Davies 3 Taxation and Personal Saving Incentives in the U.K. James Banks and Richard Blundell 4 Savings in Germany Axel Boersch-Supan 5 Government Incentives and Household Saving in Italy Tullio Jappelli and Marco Pagano 6 Public Policies and Household Saving in Japan Takatoshi Ito and Yukinobu Kitamura 7 Public Policies and Household Saving in France Denis Fougere
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