Search for dissertations about: "Household Debt"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 swedish dissertations containing the words Household Debt.
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1. Essays on Household Finance
Abstract : This doctoral dissertation consists of three self-contained essays covering different aspects of household finance. The first paper, Bank Competition and Household Non-Housing Debt: Evidence from U.S. Bank Deregulation, examines the effect of bank deregulation in the U. READ MORE
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2. Essays on welfare and debt : From impact evaluation in Kenya to Canadian housing markets
Abstract : This thesis is comprised of two independent essays on the topics of impact evaluation, and one essay on the housing wealth-effect. The essays address key questions on welfare and spending decisions made by households when subject to government assistance programs and increases in housing prices. READ MORE
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3. Essays on Inequality, Insolvency and Innovation
Abstract : First Impressions Last – Does Inequality Increase Status Consumption and Household Debt? (with Elin Molin): Recent decades have seen an increase in income inequality and household debt-to-GDP ratios in many countries, and several studies have suggested that higher income inequality spurs borrowing among nonrich households through their preference to "Keep up with the Joneses". In this paper, we show that standard Keeping up with the Joneses utility functions cannot generate this relationship unless one imposes the implausible assumption that the rich are more impatient than the nonrich. READ MORE
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4. Essays on Labor Supply and Adjustment Frictions
Abstract : Labor Supply Responses and Adjustment Frictions: A Tax-Free Year in IcelandHow does labor supply respond to a temporary wage change? To answer this question, I study an unexpected and salient tax reform in Iceland in 1987 that resulted in a year free of labor income taxes, but creating only minimal income effects, offering an ideal natural experiment. I first construct a new employer-employee dataset from digitized administrative records for the population. READ MORE
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5. When Belongings Secure Credit… : Pawning and Pawners in Interwar Borås
Abstract : This dissertation deals with pawning primarily from the perspective of the pawners. It utilises two samples from the ledgers of a municipal pawnshop in Borås in western Sweden, from 1922/23 and 1932/33. Its aim is to deal with the relation between the material and financial side of pawning as well as the causes behind pawning. READ MORE