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Mortgage indebtedness and household financial distress

Georgarakos, Dimitris; Lojschova, Adriana; … - 2010

Using comparable survey data from twelve European countries from 1994 to 2001 we investigate households’ attitudes towards mortgage indebtedness. We find that a given debt burden creates much higher distress in countries with fewer mortgage holders relative to countries where a significant...

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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 card company. What is novel about our contribution is that we were given details of a randomized interest rate experiment conducted by the lender between October 2006 and...

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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 the rich, since we are confined to those whose wealth becomes …

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Who lost the most?

Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Ziegelmeyer, Michael - 2011

likely to have invested in the stock market and thus are less likely to report losses in wealth. Yet, individuals with low x0 …

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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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How much does the public know about the ECB's monetary policy?

Cruijsen, Carin van der; Jansen, David-Jan; Haan, Jakob de - 2010

Does the general public know what central banks do? Is this kind of knowledge relevant? Using a survey of Dutch households, we investigate these questions for the case of the European Central Bank (ECB). Our findings suggest that knowledge on the ECB’s objectives is far from perfect. Both a...

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Choosing and using payment instruments

Kalckreuth, Ulf von; Schmidt, Tobias; Stix, Helmut - 2009

Germans are still very fond of using cash. Of all direct payment transactions, cash accounts for an astounding 82% in terms of number, and for 58% in terms of value. With a new and unique dataset that combines transaction information with survey data on payment behaviour of German consumers, we...

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How effective are rewards programs in promoting payment card usage?

Carbó-Valverde, Santiago; Liñares-Zegarra, José M. - 2009

Card issuers have mainly relied on rewards programs as their main strategic driver to increase electronic payments. However, there is scarce evidence on the effectiveness of rewards programs. This paper offers novel evidence on two key issues: i) it measures the impact of rewards programs on the...

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