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Managing household debts : social service provision in the EU ; Workshop report - Brussels, 25 June 2010
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and … - 2010
Overall, household debt levels have risen sharply over the past decades in EU Member States. While certain levels of … household debts can be beneficial, they can become problematic especially with a sudden, unexpected decrease of incomes or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903923
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Managing household debts : Social service provision in the EU ; Working paper
Dubois, Hans; Anderson, Robert - 2010
Household over-indebtedness is among the causes of the current financial crisis. In turn, the crisis exacerbated both … public and private debt problems. In this paper, household over-indebtedness is broadly defined as the situation where a … household cannot comply with payment requirements – whether it be mortgage, utility or consumer credit payments – on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903924
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Making sustainable consumption and production a reality
Julien, Bruno (contributor) - 2009
This guide shows how a life cycle approach can be used to identify and reduce the environmental and health impacts of the products we use. It underlines the importance of considering these issues across the entire life cycle of a product and sets them within the context of policy development,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640202
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Private consumption in France - stubbornly high, or responsive to determinants?
Casaux, Suzanne; Ecochard, Pierre - 2011
identified in the literature: real disposable income and wealth. We highlight the role of employment and wage policies in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009641052
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German consumption: is there hope for a revival?
Eppendorfer, Carsten; Stierle, Michael H. - 2008
In Germany private consumption virtually stagnated for nearly a decade and clearly lagged behind GDP growth. This Country Focus uses the estimation of a consumption function to show that the drop in employment is the most important factor behind the reluctance to consume in the first half of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009641101
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Study for an impact assessment on a proposal for a new legal framework on the confiscation and recovery of criminal assets
Forsaith, James; Irving, Barrie Leslie; Nanopoulos, Eva - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528091
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Assessing the effectiveness of EU Member States’ practices in the identification, tracing, freezing and confiscation of criminal assets : Final Report
Gunev, Filip; Redhead, Matthew; Irving, Barrie - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528107
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Information acquisition and decision making in committees
Gerling, Kerstin; Grüner, Hans Peter; Kiel, Alexandra; … - 2003
This is a survey on the recent game theoretic literature on committee decision making. We consider theoretical work on the role of (i) strategic voting, (ii) costly information acquisition, (iii) conflicting interests, and (iv) communication in committees. Moreover, we review recent experimental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635876