01547cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF012061 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781475504910 1934-7685 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. United States : Selected Issues. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012. 1 online resource (119 pages) IMF Staff Country Reports <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 This Selected Issues paper for the United States discusses the microeconomics of the country-household wealth and savings. Households' consumption-saving decisions have an important bearing on the U.S. economic outlook. This paper demonstrates how households with consistently lower income, which have shown growth in the years prior to the crisis, experienced larger declines in their saving rates and a larger rise in their indebtedness before the crisis, contributing significantly to the dynamics of the mean saving rate. Mode of access: Internet IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2012/214 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/002/2012/214/002.2012.issue-214-en.xml IMF e-Library