{"product_id":"a-collection-of-surveys-on-savings-and-wealth-accumulation-isbn-9781119158387","title":"A Collection of Surveys on Savings and Wealth Accumulation","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA survey of savings and wealth accumulation which are important dimensions of research and policy debates \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses the measurement of genuine savings and sustainability, the estimation of wealth inequality, and recent developments in consumer credit and defaults\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEvaluates the impact of student loans on financial well-being, people’s retirement decisions, and the impact of pension reform\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Savings and Wealth Accumulation: Measurement, Influences and Institutions 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdda Claus and Iris Claus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Recent Developments in Consumer Credit and Default Literature 9\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIgor Livshits\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Student Debt Effects on Financial Well-Being: Research and Policy Implications 33\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam Elliott and Melinda Lewis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Islamic Banking and Finance: Recent Empirical Literature and Directions for Future Research 59\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePejman Abedifar, Shahid M. Ebrahim, Philip Molyneux and Amine Tarazi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Wealth Inequality: A Survey 93\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrank A. Cowell and Philippe Van Kerm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Defining the Government’s Debt and Deficit 139\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimothy C. Irwin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Rise of the Fiduciary State: A Survey of Sovereign Wealth Fund Research 163\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam L. Megginson and Veljko Fotak\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Genuine Savings and Sustainability 213\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNick Hanley, Louis Dupuy and Eoin McLaughlin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Savings in Times of Demographic Change: Lessons from the German Experience 245\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAxel Börsch-Supan, Tabea Bucher-Koenen, Michela Coppola and Bettina Lamla\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Economic Determinants of Workers’ Retirement Decisions 271\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCourtney C. Coile\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 297\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdda Claus\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIris Claus\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eJournal of Economic Surveys\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAsian Economic Papers\u003c\/i\u003e and Senior Fellow at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.\u003c\/p\u003e 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.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988599390437,"sku":"NP9781119158387","price":36.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119158387.jpg?v=1761780917","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-collection-of-surveys-on-savings-and-wealth-accumulation-isbn-9781119158387","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}