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The Role of Debt Dynamics in US Household Consumption

In: International Macroeconomics in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis

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  • Vincent Grossmann-Wirth

    (Banque de France)

  • Clément Marsilli

    (Banque de France)

Abstract

This chapter documents why US private consumption, while remaining the key engine of US growth, slowed after the financial crisis. To this purpose, we estimate an error-correction model for US consumption, accounting for the role of household debt flows before and after the crisis. Contrary to an analysis carried out in terms of net wealth, a decomposition of households’ assets and liabilities shows how the pre-crisis period was characterized by an excessive indebtedness, which was both a source of short-term growth and of financial instability. In the current “new normal” situation, private consumption cannot rely on debt flows as much as before the crisis. This is, therefore, an important “demand-side” explanation for the much-debated low growth recovery.

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  • Vincent Grossmann-Wirth & Clément Marsilli, 2018. "The Role of Debt Dynamics in US Household Consumption," Financial and Monetary Policy Studies, in: Laurent Ferrara & Ignacio Hernando & Daniela Marconi (ed.), International Macroeconomics in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis, pages 115-128, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:fimchp:978-3-319-79075-6_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-79075-6_7
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