The aim of this paper is to assess the role played by the composition of the household portfolio besides standard …-2008 Bank of Italy Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) and we perform a probit analysis to investigate the main …

In this paper we investigate household financial fragility and assess the role played by the composition of the … household portfolio besides standard determinants of this condition (e.g. income, indebtedness, age, gender, financial literacy … fragility. Second, based on this new measure, we use data from the 1998-2010 Bank of Italy Survey on Household Income and Wealth …

represent the most notable unprofitable use. We use the 2002-2012 Bank of Italy Survey on Household Income and Wealth which also … frequent among male; no association with household's economic characteristics; and, a strong association with the real estate …

This paper uses evidence from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to examine how attitudes towards unsecured debt … are related to household finances and other characteristics. An ordered-logit model is estimated for 1995 and 2000 using a …

We investigate whether consumer confidence has an independent effect on household spending. First, we control for a … common set of factors that drive both consumer confidence and household spending. Next, we interpret the non …. Our results suggest that animal spirits exist and may have a considerable impact on spending growth in Europe and the US …

model of household preferences for broadband Internet service. Reliability and speed are important service characteristics …: the representative household is willing to pay $20 per month for more reliable service; $45 for an improvement in speed … from slow to fast; and $48 for an improvement in speed from slow to very fast. A representative household would be willing …