Understanding Japanese Savings : : Does Population Aging Matter? / / Robert Dekle.
Japan's savings are among the highest in the world, and these high rates have played a valuable role throughout the post-war period. However, over the next several decades, Japan's population will be ageing rapidly. Will this lower Japanese savings rates? Using up-to-date financial and dem...
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| Superior document: | Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia |
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : Taylor & Francis,, 2005. |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (112 pages) :; illustrations. |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Overview of post-war Japanese saving and investment; Plan of this book; The saving behavior of the Japanese elderly; Specification of estimation equations; Results; Conclusion; Private investment and fundamentals; Investment theory; Plots of the data; Conclusion; Simulating the impact of aging on future saving, investment, and budget deficits; The Japanese fiscal position in the 1990s; Aging and support ratios; Demographic change, the optimal saving-investment balance, and government deficits; Conclusion; Appendix. Aging and the role of foreign immigration in impacting saving, investment, and foreign capital inflowsHousing and Japanese saving and consumption behavior; Conclusion and lessons for developing countries; Notes; Bibliography; Index.