Life cycles, oil cycles, or financial reforms? The growth in private savings rates in Indonesia

Financial Cycles

Throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s, the effects of several financial cycles severely battered the banking system of the United States. As used here, the term "cycle" does not imply a recurring phenomenon, but rather a cycle through various phases--as in a boom and bust cycle. Most of these cycles began with a prolonged period of extraordinary growth centered in a particularly risky t...

Financial Cycles and Monetary Policy in Iran's Economy

The global financial crisis in 2007 showed that financial variables from different channels could exacerbate business cycle fluctuations. From the perspective of modeling in the economy, the models that assumed financial markets without friction lost their credibility. Accordingly, the correct response of the monetary authorities to the financial cycles has become one of the theoretical and pol...

Public Pension Reforms and Private Savings

The 1999 reforms to the Korea National Pension Scheme resulted in a unique situation, in which those who were insured by the pension scheme and those who were uninsured coexisted. Exploiting this situation, this paper evaluates the effect of public pension on private savings. The estimation results show that the average effect is close to zero. Households with low or very high saving rates were...

Di!erential savings, factor shares, and endogenous growth cycles

The paper analyzes the dynamic properties of the neoclassical one-sector growth model with di!erential savings in the sense of Kaldor}Pasinetti. The economy exhibits unstable steady states and #uctuations if the income distribution varies su$ciently and if shareholders save more than workers. The paper analyzes in detail the dynamics for the case with a "xed proportions technology as well as wi...

Life Cycles