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A Collection of Surveys on Savings and Wealth Accumulation

eBook - Surveys of Recent Research in Economics
WILEY-BLACKWELL
ISBN/EAN: 9781119158417
Umbreit-Nr.: 9185286

Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 312 S., 1.77 MB
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Erschienen am 23.02.2016
Auflage: 1/2016


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  • Zusatztext
    • In this collection of critical surveys 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.<br /><br /><ul><li>A survey of savings and wealth accumulation which are important dimensions of research and policy debates</li><li>Discusses the measurement of genuine savings and sustainability, the estimation of wealth inequality, and recent developments in consumer credit and defaults</li><li>Evaluates the impact of student loans on financial well-being, peoples retirement decisions, and the impact of pension reform</li><li>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</li></ul>
  • Kurztext
    • In this collection of critical surveys 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. A survey of savings and wealth accumulation which are important dimensions of research and policy debates  Discusses the measurement of genuine savings and sustainability, the estimation of wealth inequality, and recent developments in consumer credit and defaults Evaluates the impact of student loans on financial well-being, people’s retirement decisions, and the impact of pension reform 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
  • Autorenportrait
    • <p><b>Edda Claus</b> is an Assistant Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) and a Research Associate with the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) at the Australian National University (ANU). Prior to joining WLU, Edda was a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. She was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Finance at Trinity College Dublin and a visiting PhD Scholar at Cambridge University, United Kingdom. She has also worked as an Economist with the Australian Commonwealth Treasury and the Canadian Department of Finance.</p><p><b>Iris Claus</b> is the Macroeconomic Advisor at the Pacific Financial Technical Assistance Center of the International Monetary Fund in Fiji. She previously held policy and research positions at the Asian Development Bank, the New Zealand Inland Revenue, the New Zealand Treasury, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, and the Bank of Canada.  She is on the editorial boards of the<i>Journal of Economic Surveys</i> and<i>Asian Economic Papers</i> and Senior Fellow at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.</p>