Private Sector Wealth: Quarterly Estimates for use in an Aggregate Model

John Helliwell and Peter Boxall

The Economic Record, 1978, vol. 54, issue 1, 45-64

Abstract: The paper presents some estimates of private‐sector wealth in Australia for the 1958‐75 period. Basically, we have attempted to consolidate the balance sheets of all sectors, except the government and the foreign sector. Different procedures have been used for the various components of private‐sector wealth and estimates are presented for real assets of the household sector (dwellings, motor vehicles and consumer durables), for fixed assets and inventories of the business sector, and for government liabilities to the private sector. Broadly, the data indicate that over the 1958‐75 period, private wealth grew faster than population but slower than output and business capital stock. Dwellings and motor vehicles were the fastest growing components of private wealth. Reflecting the rise in the share of foreign claims on businesses in Australia, the Australian claims on business assets increased at a slower rate than the increase in the business‐capital stock.

Date: 1978
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