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We extend a semi-structural model of household income and consumption to allow for dynamic consumption elasticities with respect to transitory income shocks. Likelihood-based inference for our model accurately estimates consumption insurance against income shocks in simulated data from a...
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This paper examines the impact of climate shocks on 13 European economies analysing jointly business and financial cycles, in different phases and disentangling the effects for different sector channels. A Bayesian Panel Markov-switching framework is proposed to jointly estimate the impact of...
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Using credit report records and data collected from several household surveys, we analyze changes in household debt and … appears to reflect a considerable decline in household debt, as households paid down mortgage debt in particular. At the end … of 2009, individuals expected to continue increasing their saving and paying down of debt, which is consistent with what …
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between household debt levels, financial stability risks, and the ongoing implications of the ‘debt overhang’ for economic … growth. However, accurately measuring the household debt burden remains problematic. Aggregate measures of household … indebtedness (e.?g. household liabilities relative to income) fail to fully capture the debt servicing burdens of households …
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unable to face financial shocks and leads to an overaccumulation of debt. Hence, our results support the hypothesis that …
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Given recent adverse developments, widespread foreign currency borrowing in CEECs poses a serious challenge for financial stability. Against this background, we use survey data to study the determinants of loan arrears of private households. Our data confirm a non-negligible impact of foreign...
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particularly large bank (it was at the time ranked 7th in terms of assets) it was nevertheless a significant retail bank and a …
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We explore the effects of mandatory third-party review of mortgage contracts on the terms, availability, and performance of mortgage credit. Our study is based on a legislative experiment in which the State of Illinois required “high-risk” mortgage applicants acquiring or refinancing...
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