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Why Are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?
Chamon, Marcos; Prasad, Eswar - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
expenditures on housing, education, and health care. …
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The Myth of Post-Reform Income Stagnation in Brazil
Filho, Irineu E. Carvalho; Chamon, Marcos - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper uses Engel curves to estimate real income growth in Brazil. The estimated per capita household real income growth in metropolitan areas during 1987-2002 is about 4½ percent per year, well above the "headline" growth of 1½ percent obtained by deflating nominal incomes by the CPI....
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The Myth of Post-Reform Income Stagnation; Evidence From Brazil and Mexico
Filho, Irineu E. Carvalho; Chamon, Marcos - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
Economic policies are often judged by a handful of statistics, some of which may be biased during periods of change. We estimate the income growth implied by the evolution of food demand and durable good ownership in post-reform Brazil and Mexico, and find that changes in consumption patterns...
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Micro and macro data on household wealth, income and expenditure: comparing the Spanish Survey of Household Finances (EFF) to other statistical sources
Bover, Olympia; Crespo, Laura; García-Uribe, Sandra; …
El presente estudio muestra cómo comparan las magnitudes construidas a partir de los microdatos de la Encuesta Financiera de las Familias (EFF) con magnitudes de fuentes alternativas, como las Cuentas Financieras y otras encuestas de renta y consumo. Para ello, primero se analizan las...
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On the relationships between real consumtion, income and wealth
Palumbo, Michael G.; Rudd, Jeremy B.; Whelan, Karl - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001737974
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On the relationships between real consumption, income, and wealth
Palumbo, Michael G.; Rudd, Jeremy B.; Whelan, Karl - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001706706
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On the relationships between real consumption, income, and wealth
Palumbo, Michael G.; Rudd, Jeremy B.; Whelan, Karl - In: Journal of business & economic statistics : JBES ; a … 24 (2006) 1, pp. 1-11
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On the Relationships between Real Consumption, Income, and Wealth
Rudd, Jeremy B.; Palumbo, Michael; Whelan, Karl - 2003
consumption expenditures. As a result, tests of standard theories of consumption (such as the Permanent Income Hypothesis, or PIH … goods and services to measures of real income and wealth, where the latter are deflated by a price index for total … consumption expenditures. We demonstrate that this procedure is only valid under the assumption that real consumption of …
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Dissecting Saving Dynamics; Measuring Wealth, Precautionary, and Credit Effects
Carroll, Christopher; Sommer, Martin; Slacalek, Jiri - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
is affected by the gap between ‘target’ and actual wealth, with the target wealth determined by credit conditions and … saving rate’s long-term decline, while fluctuations in net wealth and uncertainty capture the bulk of the business …
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Private Sector Consumption and Government Consumption and Debt in Advanced Economies An Empirical Study
Mukherjee, Sanchita; Bhattacharya, Rina - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
This paper explores the hypothesis that the propensity to consume out of income varies in a non-linear fashion with fiscal variables, and in particular with government debt per capita. Using data from eighteen OECD countries the paper examines whether there is any empirical evidence to support...
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