The basic reason for withdrawing money from the banking sector is the precautionary motive.
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Historically, the precautionary motive for saving has been recognized by economists since the time of John Maynard Keynes.
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Their confidence in the monetary policy was shaken and their precautionary motive for holding more money was activated.
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More extensive research has confirmed the presence of a precautionary motive for saving within the permanent income hypothesis framework.
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The prudence index measures the intensity of the precautionary motive just as risk aversion measures the intensity of the desire for insurance.
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Lusardi ( 1998 ) confirmed that intuitions derived from economic models without a precautionary motive could be seriously misleading, even with small uncertainty.
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In other words, the heterogeneity of consumption / saving behavior of individuals in the economy makes it difficult to precisely quantify the precautionary motive for saving.
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The model was able to confirm the precautionary motive of sovereigns'accumulated assets ( as a ratio to GDP ) in response to risks of global imbalances.
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Under this notion, uncertainty about households'anticipated future income, due to expected unemployment, strengthens the precautionary motive for saving and hence holds down consumption spending ( cetrus paribus ).
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Browning and Lusardi ( 1996 ) concluded based on the empirical literature that while the precautionary motive is important for some people at some times, it is unlikely to be so for most people.