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Coffee is one of the staple beverages across Europe. The three highest GDP holders in the continent: France, Germany …, UK have been compared based on their amount of coffee consumption relative to certain specific demographic variables …. Three distinct user types have been identified in terms of heavy, medium and low coffee users. Variables ranging from age …
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There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...
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Household debt and house prices in the United Kingdom rose substantially between 1987 and 2006. In this paper we use a … inflation, and a lower long-run real interest rate may explain the build-up of debt and the rise in house prices over that … interest rates to persist, then the model can more than explain the rise in debt and can explain most of the rise in house …
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To sustain growth in an aging economy, it is important to ease the financing of small firms by bank loans. Using bank internal data of small business loans in Germany, we examine the determinants of loan rates in the period 1995-2010. Beyond characteristics of the firm, the loan contract, and...
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This Article analyzes empirical data on one of America's fastest growing credit products, the title loan. A title loan …. While legislatures around the nation struggle with how to regulate home loans, credit cards, and other middle class products … well as on repossession rates. It concludes that, given the protections we have provided to middle class consumer credit …
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