This paper examines the impact of income inequality on consumption-related household indebtedness at the household … level. Using the first wave of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey data, the analysis sheds light on …-related household indebtedness in a small sample of countries. We further employ a multilevel regression model to also take country …

This paper compares the main findings from the third wave of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for … Malta with those for the euro area. This comparative report finds that in 2016 the median Maltese household held more real …

This article summarizes the main findings from the fourth wave of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS …. The HFCS provides household-level data on assets, liabilities, wealth and income. As such, it plays an important role in … macro statistics. The results also provide a glimpse of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on household balance sheets and …

This paper compares the main findings from the fourth wave of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for … Malta with those for the euro area. This comparative report finds that in 2020 the median Maltese household held more real …

We use detailed micro information at household level from the Wealth and Assets Survey to construct measures of wealth … distribution with the monetary shock affecting the median household relative to the 20th percentile by a larger amount than the …

of past experience and international best practices. It confirms that food inflation has been the driver of domestic … inflation. The paper studies the recommendations of the Urjit Patel Committee and comments that monetary policies predominantly … focussed on inflation targeting may not necessarily be effective in India where inflation and inflationary expectations …