United Kingdom : Selected Issues Paper.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

International Monetary Fund.

Series:

IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2011/221

IMF Staff Country Reports

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inflation (Finance)--Great Britain.

Inflation (Finance).

Saving and investment--Great Britain.

Saving and investment.

Financial statements--Great Britain.

Financial statements.

Corporations--Great Britain--Accounting.

Corporations.

Households--Great Britain--Accounting.

Households.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (109 p.)

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures; Tables; Boxes; Appendices; A. Introduction; I.1 Recent Inflation Performance; B. A Decomposition of Recent Inflation Developments; I.1 Estimated Coefficients; I.2 Decomposition of Recent Inflation Developments; C. Forecasting Inflation; I.2 Description of Forecasting Models; I.3 Relative Root Mean Squared Forecast Errors; I.3 Inflation Projections Using Various Models; D. Risks to the Central Scenario; E. Conclusion; I. A Bumpy Road Ahead-The Near-Term Outlook for Inflation in the UK; A. Introduction

II.1 G7 Household Gross Saving RateB. Potential Factors Driving the Household Saving Rate; C. Empirical Model; D. Results; II.1 Saving Rate Regressions; II.2 Saving Rate and Contribution to Its Changes; II.3 Fitted Saving Rates for UK and G7 Average excl. UK and Contributions to Their Differences; II.4 Comparison of Fitted Saving Rates-UK, UK Fitted for Other G7 Variables, and Other G7; E. Using the Model to Project the UK Household Saving Rate; F. Implications of the Projections for Household's Balance Sheets; G. Conclusion; II.1 Data Definitions and Sources

II. What Drives the UK's Household Saving Rate?A. Introduction; B. Household and Financial Sector Linkages; III.1 Household Sector, 2000-10; III.2 Household Balance Sheets and Mitigating Factors During the Crisis; III.3 Household Sector Write-off Rates and Nonperforming Loans; III.4 Housing Developments; III.5 Bank Credit Availability; III.1 Descriptive Statistics by Income Category; III.6 Household Debt Service-to-Income Ratio by Income Groups; III.2 Sensitivity Analysis of Household Sector: Baseline, September 2010; III.7 Sensitivity Analysis of the Household Sector

III.3 Sensitivity Analysis of Household Sector: Summary of ShocksC. Corporate and Financial Sector Linkages; III.8 Nonfinancial Corporate Sector; III.9 Nonfinancial Corporates Funding; III.10 Debt at Risk of Nonfinancial Corporates; III.11 Commercial Real Estate Sector; III.12 Default Risk of Nonfinancial Corporates; III.1 Contingent Claims Analysis; III.13 Contingent Claims Analysis of the Corporate Sector; III.14 Sensitivity Analysis of the Nonfinancial Corporate Sector; D. Conclusion; III. Vulnerabilities of Household and Corporate Balance Sheets and Risks for the Financial Sector

I. A Bumpy Road Ahead-The Near-Term Outlook for Inflation in The UkFootnotes; II. What Drives The Uk'S Household Saving Rate?; III. Vulnerabilities Of Household And Corporate Balance Sheets And Risks For The Financial Sector

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 25, 2014).

ISBN:

9786613874153

9781463901219

1463901216

9781462357710

1462357717

9781283561709

1283561700

9781462359721

1462359728