The Puzzle of China's Rising Household Saving Rate

This column examines the determinants of the rising household saving rate that keeps Chinese consumption so low.

The Puzzle of China's Rising Household Saving Rate — China ...

Chamon, Marcos; Liu, Kai; & Prasad, Eswar. (2011). The Puzzle of China's Rising Household Saving Rate. VoxEU.org.

In an effort to reduce its sizeable current-account surplus, the Chinese government has made it a priority to “rebalance” growth in China by stoking private ...

The puzzle of China's rising household saving rate

During the global financial crisis and the following global recession, this surplus shrank from 11% of GDP in 2007 to an estimated 5% in 2010, but many analysts ...

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Corpus ID: 207982567. The puzzle of China's rising household saving rate | vox-Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists.

Housing Prices and the High Chinese Saving Rate Puzzle

China's over 25% aggregate household saving rate is one of the highest in the world. One popular view attributes the high saving rate to fast-rising housing ...

Housing prices and the high Chinese saving rate puzzle

China's over 25% aggregate household saving rate is one of the highest in the world. One popular view attributes the high saving rate to fast-rising housing ...

China's high saving puzzle - EconStor

This paper analyzes the causes of rising savings rates for the corporate, government, and household sectors, which have jointly contributed to the upsurge in ...

Why Are Saving Rates So High in China? - IDEAS/RePEc

In this paper, we define "The Chinese Saving Puzzle" as the persistently high national saving rate at 34-53 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the ...

Why Are Saving Rates So High in China? | IZA

In this paper, we define "The Chinese Saving Puzzle" as the persistently high ... rising saving rates in the government, corporate, and household sectors.

Why Are Saving Rates so High in China? | NBER

In this paper, we define "The Chinese Saving Puzzle" as the persistently high national saving rate at 34-53 percent of gross domestic ...

28 China's high saving puzzle - Oxford Academic

Controversy remains over whether the improving but still limited access to consumer credit and low interest rates help drive personal savings upwards. Finally, ...

Can income inequality explain China's saving puzzle? - ScienceDirect

Introduction · China has experienced a remarkable increase in the aggregate saving rate since the beginning of 2000s. · Household sector is the principal ...

Why are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?

From 1995 to 2005, the average urban household saving rate in China rose by 7 percentage points, to ¼ of disposable income. We use household-level data to ...

Household Saving in China - World Bank Documents and Reports

China, in recent years the world's largest and fastest growing economy, also has na- tional saving rates that are among the highest in the world.

Housing prices and the high Chinese saving rate puzzle

China?s over 25% aggregate household saving rate is one of the highest in the world. One popular view attributes the high saving rate to fast-rising housing ...

China's High Saving Puzzle - IZA - Institute of Labor Economics

... increase in household saving rate; and. (c) an increase in the government saving rate. All three sectors help drive up the aggregate saving in China. At ...

China's High Savings Rate Puzzle: Role of Precautionary Saving

We find that the Wenchuan mega-earthquake was followed by an increase in the variance of household expected income in Sichuan and a significant ...

The Chinese Corporate Savings Puzzle: A Firm-level Cross-country ...

with the view that a rise in the corporate savings rate drives China's rising current account ... account for as big a share of GDP and household savings.

China's high saving rate: myth and reality | Cairn.info

Indeed, the fastest-growing sectors in the Chinese economy over the past three decades have been the construction and services, not the manufacturing sector ( ...