01937cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF006038 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451873443 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Tanner, Evan. Frugality : Are We Fretting Too Much? Household Saving and Assets in the United States / Evan Tanner, Yasser Abdih. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009. 1 online resource (51 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Household savings rates in the United States have recently crept up from all-time lows. Some have suggested that a shift toward frugality will hamper GDP growth-the Keynesian "paradox of thrift." We estimate that households compensate for a fall in their asset income by saving more out of their labor income, dollar-for-dollar. In the wake of the crisis, our model predicts that such primary savings will increase, but only temporarily and modestly, as household assets stabilize. As savings flows gradually accumulate, they help rebuild corporate net worth and hence firms' capacity to make capital investments. A timely return to pre-crisis levels of capital investment would require that U.S. households save substantially more than the model predicts, starting now. Hence, we should fret that our savings rates may be too low. Mode of access: Internet Abdih, Yasser. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/197 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2009/197/001.2009.issue-197-en.xml IMF e-Library