National and Personal Saving in the United States: Measurement and Analysis of Recent Trends

Lans Bovenberg and Owen Evans
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Owen Evans: International Monetary Fund

IMF Staff Papers, 1990, vol. 37, issue 3, 636-669

Abstract: An analysis of issues regarding the measurement of saving concludes that the observed declines in national, private, and personal saving rates in the United States cannot be attributed to measurement problems. Several factors that seem to have accounted for the decline in U.S. personal saving are examined. Structural changes in capital markets, as well as improvements in wealth positions, living standards of the elderly, and private and public insurance mechanisms have all contributed to the declining trend in personal saving. Empirical results suggest that demographic factors may also have played an important role.

Date: 1990
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