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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788518903321

Autore

Klyuev Vladimir

Titolo

Is Housing Wealth An 'ATM'? the Relationship Between Household Wealth, Home Equity withdrawal, and Saving Rates / / Vladimir Klyuev, Paul Mills

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-7099-3

1-4527-2290-0

1-282-59008-1

9786613822581

1-4519-8492-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (27 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

MillsPaul

Soggetti

Home equity conversion - United States

Saving and investment - United States

Infrastructure

Investments: Stocks

Macroeconomics

Real Estate

Industries: Financial Services

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Saving

Wealth

Banks

Depository Institutions

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis

Housing

Pension Funds

Non-bank Financial Institutions

Financial Instruments

Institutional Investors

Housing Supply and Markets

Finance

Investment & securities

Property & real estate

Stocks



Consumption

Housing prices

Financial institutions

National accounts

Prices

Saving and investment

Economics

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"June 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. HAVE SAVING RATES REALLY FALLEN?""; ""III. LIKELY IMPACT OF FINANCIAL INNOVATION AND LIBERALIZATION ON HOME EQUITY WITHDRAWAL ( HEW) AND SAVING""; ""IV. TRENDS IN HEWAND HOUSEHOLD SAVING ACROSS COUNTRIES""; ""V. HOW DOES HEW AFFECT HOUSEHOLD SAVING?""; ""VI. ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS""; ""VII. RECENT EXPERIENCE OF HEW IN AUSTRALIA AND UNITED KINGDOM: IMPLICATIONS FOR UNITED STATES?""; ""VIII. CONCLUSIONS""; ""APPENDIX""; ""I. FINANCIAL LIBERALIZATION AND MORTGAGE PRODUCT INNOVATION""; ""II. DATA ISSUES""; ""References""

Sommario/riassunto

This paper examines the role increasing personal wealth and home equity withdrawal (HEW) have had in the decline in the personal saving rate in the United States. It does so by comparing the U.S. experience with those of Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Mortgage market liberalization and innovation should reduce household cash flow and collateral constraints while making housing wealth more liquid as HEW becomes easier over time. Regression analysis indicates the expected negative relationship between U.S. saving and net worth, with a somewhat smaller coefficient than in previous studies. HEW is estimated to have a temporary negative impact on saving of the order of 20 cents on the dollar.