The Measurement of Saving, Investment, and Wealth

There is probably no concept other than saving for which U.S. official agencies issue annual estimates that differ by more than a third, as they have done for net household saving, or for which reputable scholars claim that the correct measure is close to ten times the officially published one. Yet despite agreement among economists and policymakers on the importance of this measure, huge inconsistencies persist. Contributors to this volume investigate ways to improve aggregate and sectoral saving and investment estimates and analyze microdata from recent household wealth surveys. They provide

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Lipsey, Robert E.
Other Persons:	Tice, Helen Stone (contributor)
Publisher:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Subject:	Theorie \| Theory \| Sparen \| Savings \| Investition \| Investment \| Vermögen \| Wealth \| Messung \| Measurement \| Vermögensverteilung \| Wealth distribution
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (876 p.)
Series:	NBER-Studies in Income and Wealth National Bureau of Economic Research Studies in Income and Wealth ; v.52 Studies in income and wealth ; v. 52
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record The Measurement of Saving, Investment, and Wealth; Contents; Prefatory Note; Introduction; 1. Present NIPA Saving Measures: Their Characteristics and Limitations; 2. Measuring Household Saving: Recent Experience from the Flow-of-Funds Perspective; 3. Flow-of-Funds and National Income and Product Account Savings Estimates in Latin America; 4. Aggregate U.S. Private Saving: Conceptual Measures; 5. The Accumulation of Human and Nonhuman Capital, 1948-84; 6. Government Saving, Capital Formation, and Wealth in the United States, 1947-85 7. The Theory and Measurement of the Nominal Output of Banks, Sectoral Rates of Savings, and Wealth in the National Accounts8. World Payments Imbalances and U.S. Statistics; 9. Year-Apart Estimates of Household Net Worth from the Survey of Income and Program Participation; 10. Survey Estimates of Wealth: An Assessment of Quality; 11. Using Panel Data to Assess the Bias in Cross-sectional Inferences of Life-Cycle Changes in the Level and Composition of Household Wealth; 12. The Wealth of the Aged and Nonaged, 1984; 13. Pension Wealth, Age-Wealth Profiles, and the Distribution of Net Worth 14. The Importance of Gifts and Inheritances among the AffIuent15. Long-Term Trends in U.S. Wealth Inequality: Methodological Issues and Results; List of Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index;
ISBN:	978-0-226-48468-6 ; 978-0-226-48471-6 ; 978-0-226-48468-6
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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