Topics: - Household saving, consumption and liquidity constraints - Homeownership and mortgages - Behavioral aspects of household finance: expectations, preferences and attitudes - Households’ employment histories and saving decisions - Asset allocation over the life-cycle - Household finance...

Topics: - Causes & depth of crises; policies, institutions & strategies to ameliorate financial crises, deep recession & un(der)employment in short & long-term; - Capital flows, banking & credit systems, financial ‘innovations’, credit markets, institutional regimes of accumulation,...