Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/211538 
Year of Publication: 
1989
Series/Report no.: 
Bank of Finland Discussion Papers No. 3/1989
Publisher: 
Bank of Finland, Helsinki
Abstract: 
In a recent paper, John Graham (1987) has argued that the life cycle approach. performs rather well in accounting for intercountry differences in household saving rates so that the negative evidence sometimes reported i s not warranted. This comment presents pieces of evidence against this view. Some new evidence from a somewhat larger data set casts considerable doubt on the ability of the conventional life cycle and demographic variables to explain intercountry. differences in household saving rates. Graham's results, though taken at face value, are robust neither to data sample nor to time period.
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ISBN: 
951-686-184-9
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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