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Relatively little is known about the effects of blue-collar crime (theft, robbery, vandalism or arson) on financial decisions. Previous literature has focused its attention either on 'regional' crime rates or the 'perception' of crime as business obstacles. Instead, we examine financing terms of...
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We document key patterns in the flow of significant gifts and loans between friends and family in Great Britain, using … newly-available data from the Wealth and Assets Survey. We identify a number of new stylised facts. Gifts and loans are … generally intergenerational transfers: 83% of the value of gifts and 68% of the value of loans is made by parents to their …
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Understanding the drivers of wealth transfers during life is crucial to understanding the intergenerational transmission of inequality, the optimal design of social insurance, and the efficacy of expansionary fiscal policy. To shed light on this, we analyse the relationships between giving and...
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There is a large amount of intermediated borrowing and lending between households. Some of it is intergenerational, but most is between older households. The average difference in borrowing and lending rates is over 2 percent. In this paper, we develop a model economy that displays these facts...
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