[Video Archive] Video Streaming of our AGI Seminar “Why Do Europeans Save?” is now available on YouTube

Video archive of our AGI Seminar held online on Thursday, May 15, 2025 is now available on YouTube.
Click the link below to watch the full video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n3z2eUuZrg

Title: Why Do Europeans Save? (co-authored with Luigi Ventura)

Abstract: We analyze the saving motives of European households using micro-data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey, which is conducted by the European Central Bank. We find that the precautionary motive is the most important saving motive of European households when the proportion of households saving for each motive is used as the criterion to rank them but that the retirement motive is the most important saving motive of European households if the quantitative importance of each motive is taken into account. Moreover, the generosity of social safety nets seems to affect the importance of individual saving motives.

Language: English presentation and material

Presenter: Prof. Charles Yuji Horioka, Distinguished Professor, Asian Growth Research Institute; and Project Professor, Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University

date：2025.06.12
Category：Seminars