IMF Staff Country Reports

United States: Selected Issues

July 25, 2011

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Summary

The note delves on the U.S. housing market outlook, the potential benefits of mitigating distressed sales household deleveraging, and the recovery. Policies to facilitate labor market adjustment to reduce the large employment volatility without affecting efficient labor allocation could prevent problems. U.S. firms are hoarding money but it is likely to be spent to boost firms’ capital expenditure, rather than kept as precautionary balances. The note discusses commodity price shocks affecting Treasury inflation protected securities (TIPS), budget institutions for federal fiscal consolidation, and mortgage delinquencies in the United States.

Subject: Demand for money, Financial institutions, Housing prices, Inflation, Loans, Money, Mortgages, Prices

Keywords: CR, Demand for money, Foreclosure, House price, Housing prices, Inflation, Inflation compensation, ISCR, Lender house price appreciation, Liquid asset, Loans, Money holding, Mortgage, Mortgages, Nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, Price

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    87

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2011/202

  • Stock No:

    1USAEA2011002

  • ISBN:

    9781462317356

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685