7 The Theory and Measurement of the Nominal Output of Banks, Sectoral Rates of Savings, and Wealth in the National Accounts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prefatory Note xi
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Present NIPA Saving Measures: Their Characteristics and Limitations 21
6. 2 Measuring Household Saving: Recent Experience from the Flow-of-Funds Perspective 101
7. 3 Flow-of-Funds and National Income and Product Account Savings Estimates in Latin America 153
8. 4 Aggregate U. S. Private Saving: Conceptual Measures and Empirical Tests 185
9. 5 The Accumulation of Human and Nonhuman Capital, 1948 -84 227
10. 6 Government Saving, Capital Formation, and Wealth in the United States, 1947-85 287
11. 7 The Theory and Measurement of the Nominal Output of Banks, Sectoral Rates of Savings, and Wealth in the National Accounts 357
12. 8 World Payments Imbalances and U.S. Statistics 401
13. 9 Year- Apar t Estimates of Household Net Worth from the Survey of Income and Program Participation 431
14. 10 Survey Estimates of Wealth: An Assessment of Quality 473
15. 11 Using Panel Data to Assess the Bias in Cross-sectional Inferences of Life-Cycle Changes in the Level and Composition of Household Wealth 553
16. 12 The Wealth of the Aged and Nonaged, 1984 645
17. 13 Pension Wealth, Age-Wealth Profiles, and the Distribution of Net Worth 689
18. 14 The Importance of Gifts and Inheritances among the Affluent 737
19. 15 Long-Term Trends in U.S. Wealth Inequality: Methodological Issues and Results 765
20. Contributors 845
21. Author Index 849
22. Subject Index 855