Household Saving in Japan: The Past, Present, and Future
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- Charles Yuji Horioka, 2024. "Household Saving in Japan: The Past, Present, and Future," ISER Discussion Paper 1264, Institute of Social and Economic Research, The University of Osaka.
- Horioka, Charles Yuji, "undated". "Household Saving in Japan: The Past, Present, and Future," AGI Working Paper Series 2024-22, Asian Growth Research Institute.
- Charles Yuji Horioka, 2024. "Household Saving in Japan: The Past, Present, and Future," NBER Working Papers 33181, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Keywords
Age structure of the population; Household consumption; Household saving; Japanese economy; Life-cycle hypothesis; Population ageing; Public pensions; Saving promotion; Social safety nets; Wealth accumulation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General
- D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- D14 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Saving; Personal Finance
- D15 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
- D64 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
- E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
- H55 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Social Security and Public Pensions
- J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
- J26 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Retirement; Retirement Policies
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2024-11-25 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-FDG-2024-11-25 (Financial Development and Growth)
- NEP-HIS-2024-11-25 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
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