United States: Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund

No 2011/202, IMF Staff Country Reports from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: The note delves on the U.S. housing market outlook, the potential benefits of mitigating distressed sales household deleveraging, and the recovery. Policies to facilitate labor market adjustment to reduce the large employment volatility without affecting efficient labor allocation could prevent problems. U.S. firms are hoarding money but it is likely to be spent to boost firms’ capital expenditure, rather than kept as precautionary balances. The note discusses commodity price shocks affecting Treasury inflation protected securities (TIPS), budget institutions for federal fiscal consolidation, and mortgage delinquencies in the United States.

Keywords: ISCR; CR; price; mortgage; foreclosure; liquid asset; money holding; house price; inflation compensation; lender house price appreciation; nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office; Mortgages; Housing prices; Inflation; Demand for money; Loans (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 87
Date: 2011-07-25
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