The Savings Behaviour of German Households

Axel Börsch-Supan, Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA)
Anette Reil-Held, Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA)
Daniel Schunk , Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA)

This paper is part of an expertise submitted to the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The Federal Ministry did not influence the outcome. The results are the responsibility of the authors.

* Many thanks to Christian Goldammer, Katharina Flenker, Dörte Heger and Verena Niepel for their outstanding research assistance. Besides the Federal Ministry of Education and Research we are grateful for financial support by the German Science Foundation (DFG) through the SFB504, and the State of Baden-Württemberg and the German Insurers Association (GDV) through MEA. All remaining errors are ours.

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