Why Are Saving Rates so High in China?

Dennis Tao Yang, Junsen Zhang, Shaojie Zhou

NBER Working Paper No. 16771
Issued in February 2011

---- Acknowledgments ----

The authors would like thank Julan Du, Joseph Fan, Randall Morck, Leslie Young, and the participants in the NBER Conference on Capitalizing China in Boston, CUHK International Conference on China, and the Tsinghua Conference on Saving and Investment for their constructive comments and suggestions. The authors would also like to thank Jessie Pan for her excellent research assistance. The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. CUHK 453008) and the

National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No. 70903039), and the research support from the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies. Dennis T. Yang acknowledges the research support provided by the Hong Kong Institute of Monetary Research, where he conducted research when he served as a research fellow. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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