games, focus groups with parents and children, a survey with parents, and behavioural experiments on advergames and in … parents play an important role in mediating their children’s online behaviour, parents are often not fully aware of the risks … children are exposed to increasingly sophisticated marketing techniques online which are often outside the purview of existing …

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 …

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 …