Gyöngyösi, Gyîozîo; Rariga, Judit; Verner, Emil - 2022
This paper studies the consumption response to an increase in the domestic value of foreign currency household debt …'s 2008 currency crisis. We find that, relative to similar local currency debtors, foreign currency debtors reduce consumption … of adjustment to the shock. Foreign currency debtors reduce both the quantity and quality of expenditures, consistent …