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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827080903321

Autore

Karasulu Meral

Titolo

Stress Testing Household Debt in Korea / / Meral Karasulu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2008

ISBN

1-4623-3459-8

1-4527-6320-8

1-4518-7113-9

9786612842061

1-282-84206-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (41 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/08/255

Disciplina

332.7

332.7650947

Soggetti

Consumer credit - Korea

Debt - Korea

Finance - Korea

Financial services industry - Korea

Macroeconomics

Real Estate

Industries: Financial Services

Aggregate Factor Income Distribution

Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Saving

Wealth

Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location: General

Banks

Depository Institutions

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

Property & real estate

Finance

Income

Personal income

Consumption

Real estate prices

Economics



Housing

Prices

Korea, Republic of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; I. Introduction; 1. International Comparison of Household Debt; II. What Explains Korean Households' Debt Levels?; III. Stress Tests; IV. Conclusions; 2. Comparison of Stress Tests; Appendix: Description of the Data; 1. Summary Statistics; 2. How Representative is KLIPS?; References; Footnotes

Sommario/riassunto

Korean household debt has reached 148 percent of disposable income, high by emerging market standards. Most of this debt remains at variable rates, shifting the interest rate risk from better diversified financial institutions to households and increasing their sensitivity to macroeconomic shocks. This paper examines the sources of, and risks from, household debt by employing stress tests on household level panel data. Results suggest that a 100-300 bps increase in interest rates could increase distressed household debt household debt by 8½?17 percentage points (ppt). A drop in real estate prices by 10?30 percent could add another 4 ppt to distressed debt. Ongoing transition to amortizing mortgages in 2008?09 presents additional challenges as interest payments on debt are likely to increase further.