In this paper, we introduce the FRBNY Consumer Credit Panel, a new longitudinal database with detailed information on consumer debt and credit. The panel uses a unique sample design and information derived from consumer credit reports to track individuals' and households' access to and use of...

Household surveys are the source of some of the most widely studied data on consumer balance sheets, with the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) generally cited as the leading source of wealth data for the United States. At the same time, recent research questions survey respondents' propensity...

Aktuell machen sich 40 Prozent der Menschen in Deutschland Sorgen um ihre eigene wirtschaftliche Situation. In ernsten finanziellen Schieflagen ist bislang aber nur eine Minderheit. Im Jahr 2020 galten 6,85 Millionen Personen in Deutschland als überschuldet, konnten ihren...

We hope to model financial fragility and money in a way that captures much of what is crucial in Hyman Minsky’s financial fragility hypothesis. This approach to modeling Minsky may be unique in the formal Minskyan literature. Namely, we adopt a model in which a psychological variable we call...