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, 2000 Over 60% of US households with credit cards are currently borrowing -- i.e., paying interest -- on those cards. We attempt to reconcile the high rate of credit card borrowing with observed levels of life cycle wealth accumulation. We simulate a lifecycle model with five properties that create demand for credit card borrowing.
David Laibson +2 more
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Plastic Surgery, 2014 Everyone is familiar, in theory, with some working definition of debt; however, we rarely contemplate its implications and influence on the day-to-day politics of finance-driven decision making. The cynical among us may argue that politics at every level is driven by economics, and that very few newspaper headlines are free of an underlying economic ...
Douglas R McKay, Daniel A Peters
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Modelling nominal debt contracts and fixed rate debt [PDF]
, 2005 We provide a simple model of sticky nominal debt contracts and fixed rate debt that can easily be embedded in a dynamic general equilibrium framework. Once linearized, the debt process increases the order of autoregressive dynamics in the system by one ...
Graham, L., Wright, S.
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Liquidation Values and Debt Capacity: A Market Equilibrium Approach
, 1992 We explore the determinants of liquidation values of assets, particularly focusing on the potential buyers of assets. When a firm in financial distress needs to sell assets, its industry peers are likely to be experiencing problems themselves, leading to
Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny
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Public debt and economic growth: panel data evidence for Asian countries
Journal of economics and finance, 2020 This study examines the relationship between public debt on both short and long-run economic growth, in a panel of selected Asian countries for the period of 1980–2012.
D. Asteriou +2 more
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American Economic Review, 2006 Trade sanctions are often criticized as ineffective because they create incentives for evasion or as harmful to the target country's population. Loan sanctions, in contrast, could be self-enforcing and could protect the population from being saddled with “odious debt” run up by looting or repressive dictators.
Jayachandran, Seema, Kremer, Michael
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Lynch et al., identified novel targets on the wake‐promoting pathways that can effectively treat pain‐induced sleep disturbances. The authors demonstrated that Calcitonin gene‐related peptide‐expressing neurons (CGRP) in the external lateral parabrachial nucleus (PBelCGRP) serve as the primary relay node for pain stimuli that cause sleep disruption ...
Nicole Lynch +13 more
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, 2008 Debt problems in the UK have recently become much more severe, especially for the lowest income groups, and we examine here their impact on health, using data from the national Families´ and Children´s Survey (FACS).
Lenton, P., Mosley, P.
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Review, 1984 A more interesting and economically relevant definition of "monetizing the debt" is based on the Fed's motivation rather than its actions.
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King and Cochrane: The technological treadmill and racial inequity in US agriculture
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Between 1920 and 1969, the number of Black farmers in the US decreased from 14% of all operators to 4%. Using Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of agricultural policy and Willard Cochrane's theory of the technological treadmill, we explore how racial discrimination was linked to policies that led to structural change in US agriculture.
Jared Hutchins, Jacopo De Marinis
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