The Decline in Household Saving and the Wealth Effect
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- Commercial Banking
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- Asset Management,
- Business Operations,
- Effect,
- Federal Reserve Board,
- Finance,
- Financial Services,
- Household,
- Investment,
- Operational Planning
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- Federal Reserve Board
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Overview: Using a unique set of household level panel data, the paper estimates the effect of capital gains on saving by asset type, controlling for observable and unobservable household specific fixed effects. The results suggest that the decline in the personal saving rate since 1984 is largely due to the significant capital gains in corporate equities experienced over this period. Over five-year periods, the effect of capital gains in corporate equities on saving is substantially larger than the effect of capital gains in housing or other assets.
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Format: PDF | Size: 188KB | Date: Apr 2004 | Pages: 18
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