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Mortgage indebtedness and household financial distress

Georgarakos, Dimitris; Lojschova, Adriana; … - 2010

-adjusted income levels, various socioeconomic characteristics, housing traits, country-specific constant terms, and household …

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Subprime consumer credit demand

Alan, Sule; Dumitrescu, Ruxandra; Loranth, Gyongyi - 2011

We test the interest rate sensitivity of subprime credit card borrowers using a unique panel data set from a UK credit … conducted by the lender between October 2006 and January 2007. We nd that individuals who tend to utilize their credit limits … fully do not reduce their demand for credit when subject to increases in interest rates as high as 3 percentage points. This …

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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,...

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Private consumption in France - stubbornly high, or responsive to determinants?

Casaux, Suzanne; Ecochard, Pierre - 2011

This Country Focus studies the development of private consumption in France during the decade before the crisis. Are French consumers greater spendthrifts than their European fellows? In this paper, we estimate a consumption function to show that strong growth of private consumption in France...

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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...

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Who lost the most?

Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Ziegelmeyer, Michael - 2011

We study how and to what extent private households are affected by the recent financial crisis and how their financial decisions are in uenced by this shock. Our analysis reveals that individuals with low levels of financial literacy are less likely to have invested in the stock market and thus...

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Wealth mobility and dynamics over entire individual working life cycles

Hochguertel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - 2011

We study taxable wealth in unique Swedish administrative data, annually following a large sample of households over a period of almost 40 years. The main data limitation is non-observability of wealth for those below the tax exemption level. This implies that much of the focus of the paper is on...

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Behavioural characteristics and financial distress

McCarthy, Yvonne - 2011

Using a new nationally representative survey of financial capability and experience in the UK and Ireland, I investigate the key factors that cause individuals to experience financial distress. In this context, a key area that I focus on is whether individuals’ behavioural traits, such as...

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Consumer inflation expectations in Poland

£yziak, Tomasz - 2003

Inflation expectations constitute a subject of particular contemporary interest to central banks, especially those pursuing a monetary policy based on a strategy of direct inflation targeting. Macroeconomic theory indicates that the transmission of monetary policy impulses and their impact on...

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Consumption, habit persistence, imperfect information and the lifetime budget constraint

Willman, Alpo - 2003

Based on the householdsu0092 utility maximisation, a closed form approximation of the consumption function is derived and the deep parameters of the consumption function are estimated using aggregate euro area data. The novel element in our approach is the parameterisation of the information...

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