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

Keynote speech	page
Measured wealth, real wealth and the illusion of saving	1
William White
Summary of conference discussion	13
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 Alfonso H Guerra de Luna and Jessica Serrano Bandala	19
Financial margins in Norwegian households - An analysis of micro data for the period 1987-2003 Bjørn H Vatne	40
Household debt, interest rates and insolvencies in South Africa Johan van den Heever	52
The distribution and dispersion of debt burden ratios among households in Poland and its implications for financial stability Sławomir Zajączkowski and Dawid Żochowski	62
Risks to Romanian financial stability stemming from the household sector Florian Neagu and Angela Mărgărit	75
Session 5A: Distributional aspects of household finances
Chair: Janez Kosak (Bank of Slovenia)
Survey data on Austrian households' financial wealth: main findings and challenges Christian Beer, Peter Mooslechner, Martin Schürz and Karin Wagner	111
Capital gains and wealth distribution in Italy Luigi Cannari, Giovanni D'Alessio and Romina Gambacorta	129
Greek household indebtedness and financial stress: results from household survey data George T Simigiannis and Panagiota Tzamourani	157
The distribution of assets, debt and income among Chilean households Paulo Cox, Eric Parrado and Jaime Ruiz-Tagle V	172
Session 5B: Distributional aspects of household finances
Chair: Mattias Persson (Sveriges Riksbank)
Trends in the borrowing pattern of French households  Emmanuel Gervais	205
Measuring German household debt: financial accounts data and disaggregated survey data as complementary statistics Nikolaus Bartzsch and Elmar Stöss	214
Swedish households' indebtedness and ability to pay: a household level study Martin W Johansson and Mattias Persson	234
Are there significant disparities in debt burden across Canadian households? An examination of the distribution of the debt service ratio using micro-data Umar Faruqui	249
Income structure and income distribution of China Shi Dong	270
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 Cristina Barceló and Olympia Bover	277
Designing and implementing a nationwide survey for the production of quarterly GDP series in Nigeria C M Okafor and S N Essien	289
The household survey and monetary policy in Indonesia Wijoyo Santoso and Aldrina Kusuma Sarie	313
The financial position of households after a macroeconomic crisis: the case of Argentina Horacio Aguirre	324
The use of micro-level data from the Bank of Italy's survey of household income and wealth: a focus on household finance Claudia Biancotti and Giovanni D'Alessio	342
Annex: Participants in the meeting	347

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