This paper uses representative individual household data from Luxembourg to evaluate how severe economic conditions … could affect bank exposure to the household sector. Information on household income, expenses and liquid assets are used to … calculate household-specific probabilities of default (PD), aggregate bank exposure at default (EAD) and aggregate bank loss …

We study the role of household saving behaviour, of individual motives for saving and that of perceived liquidity … constraints in 15 Euro Area countries. The empirical analysis is based on the Household Finance and Consumption Survey, a new … harmonized data set collecting detailed information on wealth holdings, consumption and income at the household level. Since the …