Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Market Value versus Financial Accounting Measures of National Saving 15
6. 2. Dividends, Capital Gains, and the Corporate Veil: Evidence from Britain, Canada, and the United States 49
7. 3. Corporate Savings and Shareholder Consumption 75
8. 4. The Saving Effect of Taxdeferred Retirement Accounts: Evidence from SIPP 103
9. 5. Consumption Taxation in a General Equilibrium Model: How Reliable Are Simulation Results? 131
10. 6. Taxes and Capital Formation: How Important Is Human Capital? 163
11. 7. National Saving and International Investment 201
12. 8. Quantifying International Capital Mobility in the 1980s 227
13. 9. A Cross-Country Study of Growth, Saving, and Government 271
14. 10. Consumption Growth Parallels Income Growth: Some New Evidence 305
15. 11. Saving Behavior in Ten Developing Countries 349
16. Contributors 377
17. Author Index 379
18. Subject Index 383