Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/109895 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Citation: 
[Journal:] European Financial and Accounting Journal [ISSN:] 1805-4846 [Volume:] 7 [Issue:] 3-4 [Publisher:] University of Economics, Faculty of Finance and Accounting [Place:] Prague [Year:] 2012 [Pages:] 10-32
Publisher: 
University of Economics, Faculty of Finance and Accounting, Prague
Abstract: 
One important aspect of the resulting indebtedness in full-fledged market economies is the mutual influence between different economic sectors. Therefore, alongside the government indebtedness, one must take into account also the debts of private agents, especially of households and non-financial corporations. In this paper our effort is concentrated on the household sector, especially the impacts on economic growth. We have gathered data for the time period 1995-2010 for the sample of 17 European OECD countries. The main descriptive statistics reveal high and still increasing indebtedness (ratio on the net disposable income) especially in Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway and Sweden and still low indebtedness in postsocialist countries. In panel regressions (fixed effects) we add loans as another explanatory variable into growth equation and examine the impacts on the growth rate of real GDP. The main result shows that a 10 percentage point increase in the ratio of household loans to the net disposable income is associated with about 30 basis point reduction in lagged economic growth. More profound looks give the study of both cross-specific and period-specific coefficients. Last but not least we have examined more homogenous panel of 13 countries putting aside 4 postsocialist countries.
Subjects: 
Panel analysis (fixed effects)
Households loans
Economic growth
JEL: 
E1
H3
O4
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Document Type: 
Article

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