debt. Short-term risks to economic growth and the balance of payments have emerged because of the global financial crisis …

We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the … use of credit, at the individual and household level using representative pooled cross-section data drawn from the UK … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the …

contemporary capitalism that is inherently more competitive than before. Debt, credit, and liquidity, therefore, play crucial parts …

A key ingredient of an economic recovery is a pickup in household spending supported by increased consumer debt. As the … current economic recovery has struggled to take hold, household debt levels have grown little. Some evidence indicates that … households adjusted debt in line with house price movements in their local markets. However, the data show that consumer debt …