World Savings: An International Survey

by Heertje and Arnold Heertje

World Savings is the first book to analyse both theoretically and empirically, the imbalance in worldwide savings rates. Why is the savings rate in Japan so much higher than in the US? For what reasons does savings behavior in Europe fall between these twoo extremes? These basic questions are tackled by experts from throughout the world in a series of wide-ranging surveys. Following an introduction by Nobel Laureate F. Modigliani, the theoretical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631185216
• ISBN13: 9780631185215
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"