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Proceedings of the IFC Conference on "Measuring the financial position of the household sector", Basel, 30-31 August 2006 – Volume 1

IFC Bulletin No 25
March 2007


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Opening speech (PDF, 2 pages, 80 kb)1
Hervé Hannoun 

Welcoming remarks (PDF, 2 pages, 81 kb)

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Jan Smets 
  
  
Session 1: An analytical framework for measuring the financial position of the household sector 
Chair: Steven Keuning (European Central Bank) 

Using the balance sheet approach in surveillance: framework, data sources, and data availability (PDF, 38 pages, 260 kb)

Johan Mathisen and Anthony Pellechio

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The savings of households in the national accounts (PDF, 13 pages, 110 kb)

Catherine Rigo
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Household saving and wealth accumulation in the U.S. (PDF, 13 pages, 76 kb)

Charles Steindel
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The household sector in the integrated euro area accounts (PDF, 13 pages, 205 kb)

Andreas Hertkorn, Jung-Duk Lichtenberger and Pilar Velilla
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Japan's approach to capturing the household sector (PDF, 4 pages, 92 kb)

Satoru Hagino
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Session 2: An overview of issues related to household finance 
Chair: Már Gudmundsson (Bank for International Settlements) 

Thailand's household sector balance sheet dynamics: evidence from microeconomic and macroeconomic data (PDF, 10 pages, 90 kb)

Kiatipong Ariyapruchya

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Measurement problems in household international remittances (PDF, 14 pages, 67 kb)

Kenneth Coates
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A survey of housing equity withdrawal and injection in Australia (PDF, 17 pages, 125 kb)

Carl Schwartz, Tim Hampton, Christine Lewis and David Norman
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Households' transactions with the rest of the world: the case of Russia (PDF, 13 pages, 47 kb)

Lydia Troshina and Natalia Kupriyanova
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Households' response to wealth changes: do gains or losses make a difference? (PDF, 16 pages, 76 kb)

Robert-Paul Berben, Kerstin Bernoth and Mauro Mastrogiacomo
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Households' financial transactions with the rest of the world, with special reference to remittances (PDF, 16 pages, 64 kb)

Veenus Padamadan and Balwant Singh
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Session 3A: Statistical issues in the measurement of household wealth 
Chair: Aurel Schubert (Austrian National Bank) 

Should financial accounts include future pension liabilities? (PDF, 20 pages, 137 kb)

Gabriele Semeraro

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The difficulties attached to the collection of information on households' holdings of securities: third-party reporting (PDF, 6 pages, 35 kb)

Carlos Sánchez Muñoz and Jean-Marc Israël
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Portfolio shifts in securities held by households in Austria: analysis based on security-by-security information (PDF, 8 pages, 49 kb)

Michael Andreasch and Aurel Schubert
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The final financial investment of French households (PDF, 19 pages, 120 kb)

Denis Marionnet
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Measuring household wealth in Switzerland (PDF, 7 pages, 32 kb)

Jürg Bärlocher
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Session 3B: Statistical issues in the measurement of household wealth 
Chair: Luigi Federico Signorini (Bank of Italy) 

The statistical recording of implicit pension liabilities and its impact on household wealth and general government obligations (PDF, 11 pages, 55 kb)

Reimund Mink and Philippe Rother

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Measuring and predicting household housing wealth (PDF, 12 pages, 85 kb)

Tor O. Berge, Katrine Godding Boye, Dag Henning Jacobsen, Kjersti-Gro Lindquist and Marita Skjæveland
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Defining households' wealth in business (PDF, 20 pages, 84 kb)

Riccardo Bonci, Luigi Cannari, Grazia Marchese, Andrea Neri and Alexandros Karagrigoriou
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Determinants of household saving and borrowing in Botswana (PDF, 13 pages, 67 kb)

Mediyamere O. Radipotsane
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Comparing wealth distribution across rich countries: the Luxembourg Wealth Study project (PDF, 14 pages, 103 kb)

Eva Sierminska, Andrea Brandolini and Timothy M Smeeding
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Annex: Participants in the meeting (PDF, 6 pages, 83 kb)311