Sound household financial conditions are relevant for both financial and monetary stability. Therefore, we analyse … household financial fragility in a sample of euro area countries with the aim to shed some light on the nature of the large debt … increase accumulated in recent years. We focus on household arrears on payment obligations, which are one of the most direct …

The first part of this paper provides a brief survey of the recent literature that employs survey data on household …, namely: i) wealth effects on consumption, ii) housing prices and household indebtedness, iii) retirement income, consumption …