the long term goal attaining of economic system management requires the establishment of a dynamic framework to integrate multiple perspectives. this article considers the problem of economic development in macro level. as economic systems are complex adaptive systems composed of numerous numbers of components of dynamic and multidimensional nature, dynamics method is applied in this research. ...

Economic saving is an elaborate behavior in which the goal of a reward in the future directs planning and decision-making in the present. Here, we measured neural activity while subjects formed simple economic saving strategies to accumulate rewards and then executed their strategies through choice sequences of self-defined lengths. Before the initiation of a choice sequence, prospective activa...

THIS CHAPTER IS concerned with the effects that changes in demographic structure have had on Taiwan's national saving rate, and how coming changes in its age structure-notably population aging-will affect the future saving rate. We examine this topic within the framework of the life cycle hypothesis. Life cycle theory is a natural starting place, because it implies that changes in demographic s...

This article compares saving motives of urban Chinese and American workers. A framework based on Maslow’s human needs theory with the consideration of economic and cultural factors was used to develop hypotheses. The results of logistic regressions and simulations suggest that Chinese are more likely than Americans to report four out of six saving motives: saving for daily expenses, emergencies...

The lifecycle theory of saving and consumption predicts that changes in an economy’s rate of economic growth will affect its aggregate saving rate by changing the lifetime resources of younger people relative to older people. However, studies that track the saving behavior of cohorts of household heads over time as they age have yielded estimates of age-saving profiles that are too flat for gro...

M any analysts view personal saving behavior, summarized by statistics such as the personal saving rate or household debt acquisition, as a key determinant of real economic activity. Some blame the recent sluggishness of output and employment growth on low personal saving in recent years. The low rate of personal saving leaves consumers unprepared for their customary role of pulling the economy...