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Wealth Effects and the New Economy

By Torsten M Sloek, Hali J Edison

May 1, 2001

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Torsten M Sloek, and Hali J Edison. Wealth Effects and the New Economy, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2001) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

This paper investigates if there is a different impact from changes in "new" and "old" economy stock valuations on private consumption. Estimating a reduced-form VAR for seven OECD countries for the 1990s, it is found that the impact from changes in old economy stock valuations on consumption is in general larger in the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom than in continental Europe. Furthermore, the impact from changes in new economy valuations to consumption is roughly the same in the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom and in continental Europe. Finally, the results suggest that in continental Europe the impact on consumption from changes in the valuation of new economy stocks is bigger than from the old economy stocks, whereas for the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom the impact is more or less the same between the two sectors.

Subject: Asset prices, Consumption, Financial institutions, Financial markets, Market capitalization, National accounts, Prices, Stock markets, Stocks

Keywords: Asset prices, Capitalization, Consumption, Europe, Market capitalization, New economy, North America, Stock, Stock market capitalization, Stock markets, Stock markets in the 1990s, Stocks, TMT market capitalization, TMT sector, TMT stock valuation, Wealth, Wealth effect, Wealth effects, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    22

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2001/077

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0772001

  • ISBN:

    9781451849998

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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