Saving and credit market development

Matteo Pignatti and Frederic Lambert
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Matteo Pignatti: New York University

No 652, 2007 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: Life-cycle saving profiles show striking differences across countries. At all ages, saving as a percentage of disposable income is higher in Italy than in the United States. The saving profile is also much flatter. This paper focuses on the effect of differences in credit market development on saving behavior. Using a heterogeneous-agent overlapping-generation model calibrated on micro data for the United States and Italy, we investigate the impact of different types of borrowing constraints designed to capture various features of credit markets, on individual life-cycle saving behavior and aggregate saving. We use downpayment constraints to model differences in mortgage markets and participation constraints to account for different bankruptcy provisions. We show that the model can account for part of the cross-country differences observed in the data.

Date: 2007
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