We investigate the relationship between household debt and health outcomes for OECD countries over the period 1995 to 2012. Using a dataset of aggregated, standardized and objective measures of household debt and health outcomes, we estimate an instrumental variable (GMM) model in order to deal...

This paper investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on UK third sector (non-profit organizations and social enterprises) and socially-oriented small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and provides insights regarding their organizational resilience. Using data from the Longitudinal...

This study uses survey data and Instrumental Variables (IV) methods to assess whether in the US, the prices of credit cards (annual percentage rates, APRs) reflect the short and long-term risks of cardholders (measured as unpaid credit card debt in the previous year, outstanding debt and FICO...

Equity crowdfunding (ECF) provides outside equity to unlisted and mainly early stage entrepreneurial firms and the UK is the leading ECF market. This paper investigates the determinants of first follow-on campaigns and of their probability of success for a sample of 790 firms that conducted an...