Saving and the Accumulation of Wealth: Essays on Italian Household and Government Saving Behavior [Hardcover]

Taking Italy as their field of research, the contributors conduct a coherent analysis of households' saving behaviour.The evolution of private saving and its interaction with government fiscal policy play a vital and complex role in the development of the national economy. Italy is an ideal country in which to assess the impact of government and private transfer, imperfections in the capital markets, productivity growth and shifting demographic patterns on the saving behavior of individual households and on their aggregation into total private saving.The evolution of private saving and its interaction with government fiscal policy play a vital and complex role in the development of the national economy. Italy is an ideal country in which to assess the impact of government and private transfer, imperfections in the capital markets, productivity growth and shifting demographic patterns on the saving behavior of individual households and on their aggregation into total private saving.The evolution of private saving and its interaction with government fiscal policy play an important and complex role in the development of the national economy. To gain insight into this process, we must first understand the savings behavior of individual households and the ways in which they aggregate over the entire population to produce national saving. Italy provides an ideal laboratory in which to assess the impact of government and private transfer, imperfections in the capital markets, productivity growth and shifting demographic patterns on the saving behavior of individual households and on their aggregation into total private saving. The book draws on the Italian experience and data, and offers new findings on many aspects of the process of saving determination.Foreword Antonio Fazio; List of contributors; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction Albert Ando, Luigi Guiso and Ignazio Visco; Part I. Saving Trends, Government Deficit and Demographic Changelã)