This study analyzes the effect of individual finances (specifically creditworthiness and severely delinquent debt) on … is utilized in an instrumental variables design. The possibility of the reverse causality of bad health causing debt and … 2005 residence. Worsening creditworthiness and increases in severely delinquent debt are found to lead to increases in …

unsustainable levels of debt. Using survey data from South Africa, we confirm that poor people are indeed overly optimistic, and … also that optimism is positively and significantly related to debt accumulation. …

In the present paper we explicitly introduce interest payments and debt into a Kaleckian distribution and growth model … the equilibrium debt-capital-ratio are also analysed. It is shown, that the effects of interest variations on the … interest rate and the debt-capital-ratio. If the conditions for short-run "normal" effects of interest rate variations are …

risk of debt-deflation and prolonged recession. Financialization operates through three different conduits: changes in the …

We use information from the last wave of the Spanish Survey of Households Finance to study the influence of debt on the … smaller MPC than non-indebted households. This negative association increases along with the amount of debt. We also find a …