Households’ precautionary behaviors—the effects of the introduction of National Health Insurance in Taiwan

By reducing risk of large out-of-pocket medical expenses, comprehensive social health insurance may reduce households’ motivation to engage in precautionary behaviors such as saving, procurement of private insurance, and spousal labor-force participation. We use the natural experiment provided by the 1995 introduction of National Health Insurance in Taiwan to examine these effects, using pre-existing differences in access to health insurance (tied to the household head’s and spouse’s joint employment status) to identify the effects of increasing insurance coverage. We find that comprehensive health insurance has a statistically significant and large effect on household savings, but no significant effects on purchase of private accident insurance and spousal employment.

透视我国储蓄、外汇"双溢出"现象

近年来在我国以利用外资促进经济发展的过程中,外汇、储蓄"双溢出"现象日益突出,这似乎有悖于传统利用外资"双缺口"理论.但是从深层次看,储蓄负缺口的出现主要源于我国储蓄--投资途径不畅通,随着经济体制改革的深入,金融市场的完善,这种不正常的负缺口会逐渐缩小;而在经常项目中,进口规模将呈增加趋势,出口则面临长期严峻考验,外汇负缺口也将趋于外汇收支平衡.这说明我国储蓄和外汇的"双溢出"既不能持久,也不反映现实资金供求状况.有鉴于此,在继续保持引进外资适度增长水平的同时,全面提高利用外资的质量和效益,对促进我国经济新一轮起飞有着重要意义.     

Predicting children's savings: The role of parents' savings for transferring financial advantage and opportunities for financial inclusion

Parents transfer many forms of advantage to children based on their financial resources. Of interest is whether parents transfer educational and financial advantages and whether this occurs early in life. This paper examines financial advantage by asking whether children's own savings—apart from that of their parents—can be predicted by a separate measure of parents' savings for their child. This study predicts children's basic and college savings at ages 12 to 15 with separate samples from low-to-moderate- (LMI; N = 333) and high-income (HI; N = 411) households using Panel Study of Income Dynamics and Child Development Supplement data. Propensity score weighting and logistic regression results find that parents' savings for their child is significant in both household types. Given this, policies that aim to include children in savings may help reduce transfers of financial advantage and, ultimately, educational advantage.     

论存单的性质

目前我国立法既有认为存单是债权凭证的,也有认为是物权凭证的。相互矛盾的立法之实质是对“储蓄”能否作为民法上的“物”的不同理解。要解决这一问题,必须先决定我国物权法和民法典是采用以有体物为客体的德国模式,还是囊括所有财产利益的二元论模式。通过参考各国法律制度和研究社会经济生活的基本现状,认为我国选择有体物为限的德国模式更适宜。     

农村居民储蓄现状及对策分析

改革开放以来,中国农民收入增长较快,储蓄增长的幅度更快。农民收入持续增加、对未来预期不确定、融资渠道缺乏等是造成农村居民高储蓄的主要原因,因此需要采取增加农民收入、加强流动性建设、加强社会保障等措施,以减少高储蓄带来的负面影响。     

货币市场基金能否替代银行储蓄

货币市场基金被普遍认为具有高收益、低风险的优点，是银行储蓄的替代品。从货币市场基金收益与风险的关系入手，通过分析历史数据，发现货币市场基金相对银行存款具有较高风险，从理论上讲并不是银行储蓄的理想替代品。     

投资者的投资心理及投资风险分析

随着收入水平的提高,人们手中的结余资金越来越多,选择合适的投资方式很重要。本文仅对储蓄、债券、股票三种方式的投资风险、投资收益及投资者的心理态势做一分析。     

储蓄、利息税与经济增长分析

税收通过促进储蓄和资本形成对经济增长产生着巨大的推动作用.降低消费税和对个人利息收入征收所得税都会不同程度地刺激经济发展.现阶段,中国经济的低速增长和居民储蓄的居高不下,以及传统经济结构的局限性,促成了利息税的开征.     

论储蓄合同的成立

尽管各国普遍将储蓄合同作为实践合同和要式合同 ,但是储蓄合同的实践性和要式性目前尚无统一的认定标准 ,对类似案件各国各地区法院判决各异且难有说服力 ,然而这一标准的正确界定对确认当事人的权利、义务以及风险的承担具有重要的意义。本文归纳并分析了实践中出现或可能出现的各类情况 ,以期全面、准确地认识储蓄合同的实践性和要式性。同时还引入民法的缔约过失原则 ,提出在诸多情形中尽管储蓄合同尚未成立 ,储蓄机构仍应承担交存款项丧失的风险 ,因为处于强者地位的储蓄机构有在其领域内保障交存款项安全的先契约义务     

The role of savings and wealth in reducing ‘wilt’ between expectations and college attendance

‘Wilt’ occurs when a young person in high school expects to attend college but does not do so shortly after graduating. In this study we find that youth with no savings account in their own name are more likely to experience wilt than any other group examined. In multivariate analysis, young people who expect to graduate from a four-year college and have an account are approximately six times more likely to attend college than those with no account. Teens who expect to graduate from a four-year college and have designated a portion of their savings for college are approximately three times more likely to attend college than those with no account. Additionally, when savings are taken into account, academic achievement is no longer a significant predictor of college attendance. Policy implications are discussed.