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Debit cards are overtaking credit cards as the most prevalent form of electronic payment at the point of sale, yet the determinants of a ubiquitous consumer choice - "debit or credit?" - have received relatively little scrutiny. Several stylized facts suggest that debit-card use is driven by...
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of individuals who are current on their debt. We document that these effects are concentrated at the bottom of the income …
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Remarks at the National Association of College and University Business Officers, at the Waldorf Astoria, New York City.
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student debt changes to the observed changes in young Americans’ living arrangements, we model flows into and out of co …, we find that student loans deter independence: state-cohort groups who were more heavily reliant on student debt while in …
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. Yet, despite its importance, educational debt is not well understood. Among the reasons is that there exist few central … analysis of the historical and current levels of student debt and how those loans are performing. We also briefly discuss the …
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Monetary policymakers and long-term investors would benefit greatly from a measure of underlying inflation that uses all relevant information, is available in real time, and forecasts inflation better than traditional underlying inflation measures such as core inflation measures. This paper...
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financial market segmentation. If we enrich the set of observables with a measure of long-term debt, the semi-elasticity of the … risk premium to the amount of debt in private-sector hands is substantially smaller than that reported in the recent …
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and debt in funding such assets. In contrast, the balance sheet management of financial intermediaries reveals that it is … (NPV) projects as given, which in turn determines the size of the firm’s assets. The focus is on the composition of equity …
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research questions survey respondents’ propensity and ability to report debt characteristics accurately. We compare household … debt as reported by borrowers to the SCF with household debt as reported by lenders to Equifax using the new FRBNY Consumer … Credit Panel (CCP). Moments of the borrower and lender debt distributions are compared by year, age of household head …
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Remarks at the Quarterly Regional Economic Press Briefing, New York City.
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