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This paper presents a comprehensive cross-country database of fiscal space, broadly defined as the availability of budgetary resources for a government to service its financial obligations. The database covers up to 200 countries over the period 1990-2016, and includes 28 indicators of fiscal...
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This paper investigates the main individual driving forces of Hungarian household credit risk and measures the … gathered by the Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB) in January 2007. Our study presents three alternative ways of modelling household … testing. Our results suggest that the main individual factors affecting household credit risk are disposable income, the …
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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 …
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-) indebtedness which relate household income and debt services to different concepts of subsistence levels, this paper investigates … whether severe household indebtedness is driven by trigger events such as unemployment, childbirth, divorce, or the death of … are likely to cause severe household indebtedness. Unemployment also worsens the relative debt situation mainly due to the …
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community oriented financial intermediary (COFI) and reinforces the significance of using a household approach in evaluating the … effects of microfinance. Using descriptive and statistical analyses, results show that the effects of credit in household … smoothing their consumptions. It has also been shown that the access to COFI loans is relatively easy for the client household …
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States is evaluated. For this purpose aggregated data and micro household data are used. The findings show a mixed picture …
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This study focuses on the financialization of the U.S. household sector, featuring enhanced access to credit and ease … household income shows that the continued decline in household saving in the 1990s was broadly based and included middle …
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The assumption that remittances are a substitute for credit has been an implicit or explicit theoretical foundation of many empirical studies on remittances. This paper directly tests this assumption by comparing the response to health-related shocks among national and transnational households...
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This paper reviews the problems and potential benefits of integrating personality psychology into economics. Economists have much to learn from and contribute to personality psychology.
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