Aging, Saving, and Public Pensions in Japan

Charles Yuji Horioka, Wataru Suzuki, Tatsuo Hatta

NBER Working Paper No. 13273
Issued in July 2007

---- Acknowledgements -----

We are grateful to Robert Feldman, Mitsuhiro Fukao, Jong-Wha Lee, Colin McKenzie, Kazuo Ogawa, Hugh Patrick, other participants of the Asian Economic Policy Review conference and the seminar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and especially Mukul Asher and Yukinobu Kitamura for their valuable comments, and Horioka is indebted to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the Japanese Government for Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research number 18330068, which supported this research. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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