Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/50649 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
External MPC Unit Discussion Paper No. 25
Publisher: 
Bank of England, External Monetary Policy Committee Unit, London
Abstract: 
This paper uses mortgage data to construct a measure of terms on which households access to external finance, and relates it to consumption at both the aggregate and cohort levels. The Household External Finance (HEF) index is based on the spread paid by risky borrowers in the mortgage market. There is evidence that the terms of access to external finance matter more for the consumption of young cohorts in UK data. Results are robust to a wide variety of specifications.
Subjects: 
external finance
terms of access
household consumption
birth cohorts
pseudo panels
JEL: 
D10
E21
G21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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