Table of Contents
1. Savings and Wealth Accumulation: Measurement, Influences and Institutions 1
Edda Claus and Iris Claus 2. Recent Developments in Consumer Credit and Default Literature 9Igor Livshits
3. Student Debt Effects on Financial Well-Being: Research and Policy Implications 33William Elliott and Melinda Lewis
4. Islamic Banking and Finance: Recent Empirical Literature and Directions for Future Research 59Pejman Abedifar, Shahid M. Ebrahim, Philip Molyneux and Amine Tarazi
5. Wealth Inequality: A Survey 93Frank A. Cowell and Philippe Van Kerm
6. Defining the Government’s Debt and Deficit 139Timothy C. Irwin
7. Rise of the Fiduciary State: A Survey of Sovereign Wealth Fund Research 163William L. Megginson and Veljko Fotak
8. Genuine Savings and Sustainability 213Nick Hanley, Louis Dupuy and Eoin McLaughlin
9 Savings in Times of Demographic Change: Lessons from the German Experience 245Axel Börsch-Supan, Tabea Bucher-Koenen, Michela Coppola and Bettina Lamla
10. Economic Determinants of Workers’ Retirement Decisions 271Courtney C. Coile
Index 297