Household debt and financial assets: Evidence from Germany, Great Britain and the USA

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 615-643

  Brown, Sarah ^a   Taylor, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assets; Debt; Financial pressure; Household financial portfolio; Tobit estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 43949115182     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2007.00531.x     Document Type: Article

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