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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP4634 |
DP4634 The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocations and Aggregate Industry Productivity: A Comment | |
Richard Baldwin; Frédéric Robert-Nicoud | |
发表日期 | 2004-09-23 |
出版年 | 2004 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | In common with many emerging market countries, South Africa?s government does not publish balance sheet wealth estimates on a market value basis, as produced in the US, UK, Japan, and elsewhere. Yet without information on the market values of liquid and illiquid personal sector wealth, it is difficult to explain aggregate consumer spending and saving, consumers? demand for credit, and the broad money holdings of households. Behavioural equations for these variables are key components of central banks? macro-econometric models, used in forecasting and policy-making. Understanding the domestic asset value channel of the monetary policy transmission mechanism is especially important for inflation targeting countries. We construct the first coherent set of aggregate, personal sector wealth estimates at market value for South Africa. Our quarterly estimates derive from published data on financial flows, and various other capital market data, often at book value. Our methods rely, where relevant, on accumulating flow of funds data using appropriate benchmarks, and, where necessary, converting book to market values using appropriate asset price indices. Relating asset to income ratios for various asset classes to asset price movements and rates of return, throws light on the changing composition of personal sector wealth. Most striking are the rise in pension wealth - overtaking gross housing assets in the late 1980s; the rise in household debt; and the relative decline of liquid and housing assets, from the early and mid-1980s, respectively. |
主题 | International Macroeconomics |
关键词 | C84 National balance sheets Personal sector wealth Saving |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp4634 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/533554 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Richard Baldwin,Frédéric Robert-Nicoud. DP4634 The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocations and Aggregate Industry Productivity: A Comment. 2004. |
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