Empirical Analysis of Households' Saving Behavior

The demographic change forced Germany and other industrialized countries to bring their pension systems back on a sustainable track. This development has increased the responsibility of each individual regarding old-age income. The affected individuals are forced to intensify their savings to close the increasing gap between public pension income and the standard of living experienced during one's working life. This book investigates several empirical and methodological aspects of households' saving behavior including some in relation to the background of the recent financial crisis. How large are the losses in wealth of German households due to the recent financial and economic crisis in the short and the long term? Is the private old-age provision in Germany still adequate after substantial downturns of different asset categories? Who lost the most during the financial crisis, and how are these losses connected to financial literacy or cognitive abilities of households? How many self-employed people are in danger of old-age poverty in Germany? Is the omission of the nursing home population responsible for a sizeable overestimation of saving rates at older ages, which are observed in many micro datasets around the world?

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• Title: Empirical Analysis of Households' Saving Behavior
• Author: Dr. Michael Ziegelmeyer
• Edition: 1st edition
• Published: 1st edition 08/01/2011
• Subject: Economics
• Product Type: Book (Hardcover)
• Product type: Dissertation
• Language: English
• Binding: hardcover, softcover (paperback)
• Dimensions: 21.0 x 14.8 cm (DIN A5)
• Extent: 96 pages
• Condition: New (shrink-wrapped in foil)
• Keywords: cognitive abilities, crisis, financial crisis, financial literacy, growing old, Health and Retirement Study, imputation, imputation methods, life-cycle savings, logical imputation, multiple imputation, nursing home population, pension, private old-age Provision, private pension, retirement, SAVE, saving behavior, stochastic imputation

Author

Michael Ziegelmeyer, born in Heidelberg in 1982, studied economics at the universities of Mannheim and Toronto. From May 2008 to February 2011, he joined the Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging, where he wrote his thesis under the supervision of Prof. Börsch-Supan. As a research fellow he worked in the research unit "Macroeconomic Implications of an Aging Society" and was responsible for the German SAVE dataset, a major panel survey on household finances. In February 2011, he started working for the economics and research department of the Banque centrale du Luxembourg.

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