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Subject(s)

• Savings accounts [Browse]
• Wealth [Browse]
• Credit [Browse]
• Loans [Browse]
• Debts, Public [Browse]

Author

Claus, Iris [Browse]

Series

• Surveys of Recent Research in Economics [More in this series]
• Surveys of recent research in economics

Summary note

"Savings and wealth accumulation are important dimensions of research and policy debates. In the collection of critical surveys presented in this edited volume, the reader is provided with a range of up-to-date work from some of the leading scholars in the area, writing on private and public sector aspects of savings and wealth accumulation. The volume discusses the measurement of genuine savings and sustainability, the estimation of wealth inequality, recent developments in consumer credit and defaults, the impact of student loans on financial well-being, people's retirement decisions, and the impact of pension reform. It considers the distribution of wealth across generations and the importance of accurately measuring government debt, the rise of sovereign wealth funds and Islamic banking and finance. The collection will be of interest to academics, governments and policy makers, industrialists and anyone interested in critical insights into savings and wealth accumulation"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Savings and Wealth Accumulation: Measurement, Influences and Institutions 1 Edda Claus and Iris Claus 2. Recent Developments in Consumer Credit and Default Literature 9 Igor Livshits 3. Student Debt Effects on Financial Well-Being: Research and Policy Implications 33 William Elliott and Melinda Lewis 4. Islamic Banking and Finance: Recent Empirical Literature and Directions for Future Research 59 Pejman Abedifar, Shahid M. Ebrahim, Philip Molyneux and Amine Tarazi 5. Wealth Inequality: A Survey 93 Frank A. Cowell and Philippe Van Kerm 6. Defining the Government's Debt and Deficit 139 Timothy C. Irwin 7. Rise of the Fiduciary State: A Survey of Sovereign Wealth Fund Research 163 William L. Megginson and Veljko Fotak 8. Genuine Savings and Sustainability 213 Nick Hanley, Louis Dupuy and Eoin McLaughlin 9 Savings in Times of Demographic Change: Lessons from the German Experience 245 Axel Borsch-Supan, Tabea Bucher-Koenen, Michela Coppola and Bettina Lamla 10. Economic Determinants of Workers' Retirement Decisions 271 Courtney C. Coile Index 297.

ISBN

1-119-15839-7

OCLC

945549984

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