Arbeitspapier

The anatomy of consumption in a household foreign currency debt crisis

How do households adjust to a large debt shock? This paper studies household responses to a revaluation of foreign currency household debt during a large depreciation in Hungary. Relative to similar local currency debtors, foreign currency debtors reduce consumption expenditures approximately one-for-one with increased debt service, suggesting binding liquidity constraints. Foreign currency debtors reduce both the quantity and quality of expenditures, consistent with nonhomothetic preferences and a "flight from quality." Debt revaluation has no effect on labor market status, hours, or earnings, but there is a small adjustment toward foreign income streams and a substantial increase in home production.

ISBN
978-92-899-5320-7
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ECB Working Paper ; No. 2733

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth
Demand and Supply of Labor: General
Thema
Marginal propensity to consume
flight from quality
home production

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Gyöngyösi, Gyîozîo
Rariga, Judit
Verner, Emil
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
European Central Bank (ECB)
(wo)
Frankfurt a. M.
(wann)
2022

DOI
doi:10.2866/760321
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Gyöngyösi, Gyîozîo
  • Rariga, Judit
  • Verner, Emil
  • European Central Bank (ECB)

Entstanden

  • 2022

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