The determinants of household saving in China: A dynamic panel analysis of provincial data

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2077-2096

  Horioka, Charles Yuji ^a   Wan, Junmin ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age structure; China; Demographics; Dependency ratio; Habit formation; Household; Household saving; Household saving rate; Inertia; Life cycle hypothesis; Life cycle model; Permanent income hypothesis; Persistence; Saving; Saving rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 36348988524     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2007.00099.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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