Sound household financial conditions are relevant for both financial and monetary stability. Therefore, we analyse … household financial fragility in a sample of euro area countries with the aim to shed some light on the nature of the large debt … increase accumulated in recent years. We focus on household arrears on payment obligations, which are one of the most direct …

equity. Using US household data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation for the period 1996-2006, we find that … applies. This home equity bias is also more pronounced if the household head is in poor health, increasing the chance of … tenures, and younger household heads, which taken together reflect households that face more financial uncertainty …

capital buffers, lending restrictions and caps on maturity mismatches on credit to the non-financial private sector in the EU … as well as of the relative ineffectiveness of sectoral risk weights in controlling credit growth. …

capital buffers, lending restrictions and caps on maturity mismatches on credit to the non-financial private sector in the EU … as well as of the relative ineffectiveness of sectoral risk weights in controlling credit growth …