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Why are saving rates of urban households in China rising? /

Paper examines savings rates in urban China from 1995 to 2005. In this period the average urban household saving rate in China rose by 7 percentage points, to a quarter of disposable income. Saving rates increased across all demographic groups, although the saving rates are highest among the younges...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Chamon, Marcos (Autor), Prasad, Eswar S., 1965- (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: International Monetary Fund. Research Department
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, Research Dept., 2008.
©2008
Colección:IMF working paper ; WP/08/145.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Introduction; II. Data; III. Stylized Facts; IV. Demographic Determinants of Household Saving Behavior; V. Potential Explanations; A. Habit Formation; B. Shifts in Social Expenditures; C. Durables Purchases and Savings; D. Housing Purchases and Savings; E. Effects of State Enterprise Restructuring on Saving Behavior; F. Target Savings; V.A Composite Sketch; VI. Discussion and Implications for Aggregate Saving Patterns; Appendix; Text Tables; 1. Summary Statistics; 2. Representativeness of 10 Provinces/Municipalities Sub-Sample; 3. Consumption Growth and Habit Formation.
  • 4. Ownership of Durable Goods per 100 Urban Households5. Home Purchase and Construction Expenditure Financed by Saving Withdrawals .; 6. Type of Employer for Households With a Head in the Age Range 25-59; 7. Median Regressions for the Saving Rate; 8. Median Regressions for the Saving Rate Including Imputed Value of Owner Occupied Housing; Appendix Tables; A1. Saving Rates and Household Income in Household Surveys and National Accounts; A2. Breakdown of Consumption Expenditures Across Different Categories; Text Figures; 1. Contributions to Gross Domestic Savings as a Percentage of GDP.
  • 2. Saving Rate and Share of Total Savings by Income Quintile3. Average Disposable Income and Consumption by Age of Head of Household; 4. Income and Consumption for Different Cohorts Over Time; 5. Average Saving Rates by Age of Head of Household; 6. Age, Cohort, and Year Effects on Income, Consumption and Saving Rates; 7. Average and Standard Deviation of the Shares of Consumption Expenditure on Education and Health as a Function of Age of the Head of the Household; 8. Home Ownership by Age of the Head of Household; 9. Age Distribution of the Chinese Population: Estimates and Projections.
  • Appendix FiguresA1. Aggregate Saving Rate in an OLG Model with Credit Constraints as a Function of Geometric Growth Rate of Wages; A2. Aggregate Saving Rate in an OLG Model with Credit Constraints as a Function of Geometric Growth Rate of Wages and the Credit Constraint; References.