Household surveys are the source of some of the most widely studied data on consumer balance sheets, with the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) generally cited as the leading source of wealth data for the United States. At the same time, recent research questions survey respondents' propensity...

The bank regulation embodied in the Basel II Accord has opened-up a new era in estimating recovery rates or complementary loss given default in retail lending credit evaluation process. In this paper we investigate the properties of survival analysis models applied for recovery rates in order to...

We review the literature in sociology and related fields on the fast global growth of consumer credit and debt and the possible explanations for this expansion. We describe the ways people interact with the strongly segmented consumer credit system around the world—more specifically, the way...