This paper analyzes how financial literacy and reported willingness to take financial risk impact a household's choice of mortgage type. The results show that households reporting higher financial literacy and lower risk aversion are 55 to 97 percent more likely to opt for interest-only...

This paper analyzes how financial literacy and reported willingness to take financial risk impact a household's choice of mortgage type. The results show that households reporting higher financial literacy and lower risk aversion are 55 to 97 percent more likely to opt for interest-only...

This paper examines the effect of national culture on adult financial literacy levels in 12 countries. Contrary to earlier financial literacy studies, our results are directly comparable across countries given that we use the standardized OECD/INFE financial literacy survey data and Hofstede's,...