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Understanding saving : evidence from the United States and Japan

Title: Understanding saving : evidence from the United States and Japan / Fumio Hayashi.
Author: Hayashi, Fumio.
Publication: Cambridge, Mass : The MIT Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Description

x, 510 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Contents

1. Introduction to Parts I and II: A Review of Empirical Studies of Household Saving -- 2. The Permanent Income Hypothesis: Estimation and Testing by Instrumental Variables -- Addendum to Chapter 2: Estimation Using Updated Data -- 3. The Effect of Liquidity Constraints on Consumption: A Cross-Sectional Analysis -- 4. The Permanent Income Hypothesis and Consumption Durability: Analysis Based on Japanese Panel Data -- Addendum to Chapter 4: Consumption Growth Equation for Food -- 5. Testing the Life Cycle - Permanent Income Hypothesis on Japanese Monthly Panel Data -- 6. Tests for Liquidity Constraints: A Critical Survey and Some New Observations -- 7. Is the Extended Family Altruistically Linked? Direct Tests Using Micro Data -- 8. Is the Japanese Extended Family Altruistically Linked? A Test Based on Engel Curves -- 9. Risk Sharing between and within Families -- 10. Introduction to Part III: A Review of Recent Literature on Japanese Saving --
11. Why Is Japan's Saving Rate So Apparently High? -- Addendum to Chapter 11: An Update of Data Approach -- 12. Life Cycle and Bequest Savings: Evidence from a Large Cross-Section of Japanese Households -- 13. Housing Finance Imperfections and Private Saving: A Simulation Analysis.

ISBN

0262082551 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

96037681

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