This Selected Issues paper for the United States discusses the microeconomics of the country—household wealth and …

This Selected Issues paper analyzes household savings ratio in Spain. The household savings ratio has fallen to its …. Household savings fell across all households, but the declines were likely more material among lower income and highly indebted … groups. Declining household income and savings slowed deleveraging and put household balance sheets under pressure. Looking …

United Kingdom. Mortgage market liberalization and innovation should reduce household cash flow and collateral constraints …

panel of advanced economies that greater labor income uncertainty is significantly associated with higher household savings … least two-fifths of the sharp increase in household saving rates between 2007 and 2009 can be attributed to the …

This paper studies a panel of China's provinces over the period 1996-2009 during which urban household saving rates … increase in real deposit rates may help lower household saving and boost domestic consumption. …

for this hypothesis, and also suggest that private and government consumption are substitutes in the household utility …

household consumption in China. The paper first undertakes an empirical study of the relationship between the savings rate and … then applies a generational accounting framework to Chinese household income survey data. This analysis suggests that a … result in a permanent increase the household consumption ratio of 1¼ percentage points of GDP. …