International comparisons of household saving
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Bibliographic Information
International comparisons of household saving
(A National Bureau of Economic Research project report)
University of Chicago, 1994
Available at 60 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Companion volume to Public policies and household saving, edited by Jim Poterba
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Governments and corporations may contribute, but around the world household saving is the biggest factor in national saving. To increase understanding of why saving rates differ across countries, this volume provides analyses of patterns of household saving behaviour in Canada, Italy, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. Each of the six chapters examines micro data sets of household saving within a particular country and summarizes statistics on patterns of saving by age, income and other demographic factors. The authors provide age-earning profiles and analyses of the accumulation of wealth over the lifetime which allows comparisons between earning, consumption and saving in the six countries. Designed as a companion to Public Policies and Household Saving (1994), which addresses saving policies in the G-7 nations, this volume offers detailed descriptions of saving behaviour in all G-7 nations except France.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction 1 James M. Poterba 1: Household Data on Saving Behavior in Canada 11 John B. Burbidge, James B. Davies. 2: Personal Saving in the United States 57 Orazio P. Attanasio 3: Household Saving Behavior in Japan 125 Noriyuki Takayama, Yukinobu Kitamura. 4: Household Saving Behavior in the United Kingdom 169 James Banks, Richard Blundell. 5: Savings in Germany - Part 2: Behavior 207 Axel Borsch-Supan 6: Personal Saving in Italy 237 Tullio Jappelli, Marco Pagano. Contributors 269 Author Index 271 Subject Index 273
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