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Part I. Saving Trends, Government Deficits and Demographic Changes: 1. Why is Italy's saving rate so high? Luigo Guiso, Tullio Jappelli and Daniele Terlizzese 2. Private saving and government deficits Nicola Rossi and Ignazio Visco 3. Do social and demographic changes explain the decline in the saving rate of Italian households? Luigi Cannari 4. Generational accounts: the case of Italy Daniele Franco, Jagadeesh Gokhale, Luigi Guiso, Laurence Kotlikoff and Nicola Sartor Part II. Life Cycle Saving and Precautionary Motives: 5. Young households' saving and the life cycle of opportunities, evidence from Japan and Italy Albert Ando, Luigi Guiso and Daniele Terlizzese 6. Dissaving by the elderly, transfer motives and liquidity constraints Albert Ando, Luigi Guiso and Daniele Terlizzese 7. Earnings uncertainty and precautionary saving Luigi Guiso, Tullio Jappelli and Daniele Terlizzese 8. Risk sharing and precautionary saving Luigo Guiso and Tullio Japelli Part III. Borrowing Constraints, Intergenerational Transfers and Requests: 9. Intergenerational transfers and capital market imperfections, evidence from a cross-section of Italian households Luigi Guiso and Tullio Jappelli 10. Saving and borrowing constraints Livio Maccan, Nicola Rossi and Ignazio Visco 11. Durable and non-durable consumption: evidence from Italian household data Agar Brugiavini and Guglielmo Weber 12. Bequests and saving for retirement: what impels the accumulation of wealth? Fabrizio Barca, Luigi Cannari and Luigi Guiso.