This paper reviews the literature on international comparative household finance. The paper presents summary statistics … on household balance sheets for 13 developed countries, and uses these statistics to discuss common features and …

Indonesian economic crisis on household welfare there. Using only pre-crisis household information, we estimate the compensating …-parametric methods. We find that virtually every household was severely impacted, although it was the urban poor that fared the worst … the geographic location of the household mattered even within urban or rural areas and household income categories …

being credit rationed, loan size, and the probability of bankruptcy using household-level data from the Japanese Panel … Survey of Consumers, conducted by the Institute for Research on Household Economics, in conjunction with judicial data by … credit rationed and decreases loan size. Furthermore, we find that better judicial enforcement increases the probability of …

confirm empirically that the bulk of the time variation in household mortgage choice can be explained by time variation in the …