The paper investigates the interdependence of household financial liabilities and assets, with special focus on the impact of liabilities on households’ holdings of financial assets. The paper uses the new ECB Household Finance and Consumption Survey from 2009–2010 covering euro area...

This article estimates the extent of income underreporting by households with business income relative to households of wage earners in Estonia. It uses a modified version of the methodology pioneered by Pissarides and Weber. The extent of income underreporting is estimated by comparing food...

This paper studies the interdependence of households’ financial assets and liabilities in European countries. Most studies treat household liabilities as negative assets and relate households’ decisions to their net wealth. However, the components of net wealth, i.e. financial liabilities,...