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A Kaleckian growth model is modified to incorporate working households who borrow to finance some part of their consumption spending. The impact of this behavior on the sustainability of the growth process is then studied by means of a numerical analysis that captures various dimensions of...
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located closer to the household than non-mortgage relations. Examining the heterogeneity of mortgage relations across …
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We study the spending response of first-time borrowers to an overdraft facility and elicit their preferences, beliefs, and motives through a FinTech application. Users increase their spending permanently, lower their savings rate, and reallocate spending from non-discretionary to discretionary...
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government debt to GDP and the household debt to total household income. The estimation of the model is made feasible through the …
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We follow a representative panel of millions of consumers in the U.S. from 2007 to 2017 and document several facts on the long-term effects of the Great Recession. There were about six million foreclosures in the ten-year period after Lehman's collapse. Owners of multiple homes accounted for 25%...
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This paper analyses the dynamics of personal insolvencies in Germany and the UK, focusing on the recent recession. These countries are particularly interesting as they are both member countries of the European Union, yet have completely different approaches to deal with overindebted individuals....
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We confirm the negative relationship between household debt and future GDP growth documented in Mian, Sufi, and Verner … relationship. First, debt overhang impairs household consumption when negative shocks hit. Second, increases in household debt … be systematically neglected due to investors' overoptimistic expectations associated with household debt booms. In …
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Historically high household debt in several economies is calling for a deleveraging, but according to some economists …, this paper finds evidence of a negative relationship between changes of household debt-to-income ratios and saving rates … suggest that the economic cost associated with household deleveraging may be overestimated and motivate a deleveraging via …
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the Great Recession, there was a historic run-up in household debt, driven primarily by housing debt, which coincided with …. We examine the trends in household debt before, during, and since the 2000s financial crisis and Great Recession. As we … household debt has recovered to its previous level in nominal terms, its composition and characteristics have changed …
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Using Danish household level data, we find that a relatively large share of total interest-only mortgage debt is held …
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