NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

National Saving and Economic Performance

B. Douglas Bernheim and John B. Shoven, editors

Conference held January 6-7, 1989
Published in January 1991 by University of Chicago Press
© 1991 by the National Bureau of Economic Research

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394 pp. pages
ISBN: 0-226-04404-1

Table of Contents

Front matter, table of contents, acknowledgments: B. Douglas Bernheim, John B. Shoven (p. -9 - 0) (bibliographic info) (download)

Introduction: B. Douglas Bernheim, John B. Shoven (p. 1 - 14) (bibliographic info) (download)

1. Market Value versus Financial Accounting Measures of National Saving: David F. Bradford (p. 15 - 48) (bibliographic info) (download)

2. Dividends, Capital Gains, and the Corporate Veil: Evidence from Britain, Canada, and the United States: James M. Poterba (p. 49 - 74) (bibliographic info) (download)

3. Corporate Savings and Shareholder Consumption: Alan J. Auerbach, Kevin Hassett (p. 75 - 102) (bibliographic info) (download)

4. The Saving Effect of Tax-deferred Retirement Accounts: Evidence from SIPP: Steven F. Venti, David A. Wise (p. 103 - 130) (bibliographic info) (download)

5. Consumption Taxation in a General Equilibrium Model: How Reliable are Simulation Results? : B. Douglas Bernheim, John Karl Scholz, John B. Shoven (p. 131 - 162) (bibliographic info) (download)

6. Taxes and Capital Formation: How Important is Human Capital?: James Davies, John Whalley (p. 163 - 200) (bibliographic info) (download)

7. National Saving and International Investment: Martin Feldstein, Philippe Bacchetta (p. 201 - 226) (bibliographic info) (download)

8. Quantifying International Capital Mobility in the 1980s: Jeffrey A. Frankel (p. 227 - 270) (bibliographic info) (download)

9. A Cross-Country Study of Growth, Saving, and Government: Robert J. Barro (p. 271 - 304) (bibliographic info) (download)

10. Consumption Growth Parallels Income Growth: Some New Evidence: Christopher D. Carroll, Lawrence H. Summers (p. 305 - 348) (bibliographic info) (download)

11. Saving Behavior in Ten Developing Countries: Susan M. Collins (p. 349 - 376) (bibliographic info) (download)

List of Contributors, Indices: B. Douglas Bernheim, John B. Shoven (p. 377 - 386) (bibliographic info) (download)

 
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