Arbeitspapier

Household balance sheets and economic crisis

This paper studies the economic impact of the current global economic downturn on the household sector. Household budgets can be negatively affected by declines in nominal wages and increases in unemployment. We empirically test this effect for the small open emerging economy. As a result of a lack of individual data on household finances, micro data are simulated. Our analysis clearly shows that there is a significant additional decline in consumption related to an increase in household default rates and unemployment. We find that potential household insolvencies have important implications for the financial system as well as for the macroeconomy.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IES Working Paper ; No. 20/2011

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation
Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
Bankruptcy; Liquidation
Corporate Finance and Governance: Government Policy and Regulation
Thema
credit cycle
households' distress
insolvency
household default
aggregate consumption

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Jakubík, Petr
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Charles University in Prague, Institute of Economic Studies (IES)
(wo)
Prague
(wann)
2011

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Jakubík, Petr
  • Charles University in Prague, Institute of Economic Studies (IES)

Entstanden

  • 2011

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