This chapter provides an overview of household finance. The first part summarizes key facts regarding household … patterns. This part covers five topics: consumption and savings, borrowing, payments, asset allocation, and insurance. The … second part addresses interventions that firms, governments, and other parties deploy to shape household financial outcomes …

This article reviews the literature on international comparative household finance. It presents summary statistics on … household balance sheets for 13 developed countries and uses these statistics to discuss common features and contrasts across … countries. It then discusses retirement savings, investments in risky assets, unsecured debt, and mortgages …

This paper reviews the literature on international comparative household finance. The paper presents summary statistics … on household balance sheets for 13 developed countries, and uses these statistics to discuss common features and … contrasts across countries. The paper then discusses retirement savings, investments in risky assets, unsecured debt, and …