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Proceedings of the IFC Conference on "Measuring the financial position of the household sector", Basel, 30-31 August 2006 – Volume 2

IFC Bulletin No 26
July 2007


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Keynote speech 
Measured wealth, real wealth and the illusion of saving (PDF, 11 pages, 114 kb)1
William White 

Summary of conference discussion (PDF, 3 pages, 79 kb)

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Session 4: Measurement issues with respect to household debt 
Chair: Leon Taub (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) 

The domestic financial position of the household sector in Mexico (PDF, 21 pages, 196 kb)

Alfonso H Guerra de Luna and Jessica Serrano Bandala

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Financial margins in Norwegian households – An analysis of micro data for the period 1987-2003 (PDF, 12 pages, 177 kb)

Bjørn H Vatne
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Household debt, interest rates and insolvencies in South Africa (PDF, 10 pages, 155 kb)

Johan van den Heever
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The distribution and dispersion of debt burden ratios among households in Poland and its implications for financial stability (PDF, 13 pages, 199 kb)

Sławomir Zajączkowski and Dawid Żochowski
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Risks to Romanian financial stability stemming from the household sector (PDF, 34 pages, 338 kb)

Florian Neagu and Angela Mărgărit
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Session 5A: Distributional aspects of household finances 
Chair: Janez Kosak (Bank of Slovenia) 

Survey data on Austrian households' financial wealth: main findings and challenges (PDF, 18 pages, 161 kb)

Christian Beer, Peter Mooslechner, Martin Schürz and Karin Wagner

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Capital gains and wealth distribution in Italy (PDF, 28 pages, 200 kb)

Luigi Cannari, Giovanni D'Alessio and Romina Gambacorta
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Greek household indebtedness and financial stress: results from household survey data (PDF, 15 pages, 135 kb)

George T Simigiannis and Panagiota Tzamourani
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The distribution of assets, debt and income among Chilean households (PDF, 30 pages, 790 kb)

Paulo Cox, Eric Parrado and Jaime Ruiz-Tagle V
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Session 5B: Distributional aspects of household finances 
Chair: Mattias Persson (Sveriges Riksbank) 

Trends in the borrowing pattern of French households (PDF, 9 pages, 124 kb)

Emmanuel Gervais

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Measuring German household debt: financial accounts data and disaggregated survey data as complementary statistics (PDF, 20 pages, 140 kb)

Nikolaus Bartzsch and Elmar Stöss
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Swedish households' indebtedness and ability to pay: a household level study (PDF, 15 pages, 197 kb)

Martin W Johansson and Mattias Persson
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Are there significant disparities in debt burden across Canadian households? An examination of the distribution of the debt service ratio using micro-data (PDF, 21 pages, 280 kb)

Umar Faruqui
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Income structure and income distribution of China (PDF, 4 pages, 100 kb)

Shi Dong
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Session 6: Panel on using household surveys to gather information on household finances 
Chair: Coen Voormeulen (Netherlands Bank) 

Lessons from the Spanish survey of household finances (PDF, 12 pages, 114 kb)

Cristina Barceló and Olympia Bover

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Designing and implementing a nationwide survey for the production of quarterly GDP series in Nigeria (PDF, 24 pages, 168 kb)

C M Okafor and S N Essien
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The household survey and monetary policy in Indonesia (PDF, 11 pages, 177 kb)

Wijoyo Santoso and Aldrina Kusuma Sarie
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The financial position of households after a macroeconomic crisis: the case of Argentina (PDF, 18 pages, 221 kb)

Horacio Aguirre
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The use of micro-level data from the Bank of Italy's survey of household income and wealth: a focus on household finance (PDF, 5 pages, 99 kb)

Claudia Biancotti and Giovanni D'Alessio
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Annex: Participants in the meeting (PDF, 6 pages, 123 kb)347