Household debt : implications for monetary policy and financial stability.

Conference organizaded by the BIS and the Bank of Korea in Seoul on 28 march 2008.

Foreword, iii -- Programme, v -- Participants in the meeting, vii -- Introduction / Guonan Ma, Eli Remolona and Ilhyock Shim, 1 -- Speeches -- Opening address / Seongtae Lee, 4 -- Bank supervision and central banking: understanding credit during a time of financial turmoil / Eric S. Rosengren, 6 -- Opening speech / Robert McCauley, 17 -- Papers presented -- Household debt in Australia / Michael Davies, 19 -- Household debt, monetary policy and financial stability: still searching for a unifying model / Andrew Filardo, 31 -- Development of consumer credit in China / Shen Bingxi and Yan Lijuan, 51 -- Risk profile of households and the impact on financial stability / Wimboh Santoso and Made Sukada, 58 -- A note on Japanese household debt: international comparison and implications for financial stability / Shinobu Nakagawa and Yosuke Yasui, 75 -- Household debt, the savings rate and monetary policy: the Korean experience / Kyuil Chung, 83 -- Credit card lending distress in Korea in 2003 / Taesoo Kang and Guonan Ma., 95 -- Household debt in Malaysia / Norhana Endut and Toh Geok Hua, 107 -- Consumer credit in the Philippines / Winecito L. Tan, 117 -- Household indebtedness in Sweden and implications for financial stability-the use of household-Ievel data / Mattias Persson, 124 -- Household sector and monetary policy implications: Thailand's recent experience / Tientip Subhanij, 136.