Household Debt - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 May 2017
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Household Debt Is Higher Than It Was In 2008 — But Don't Panic

17 Jun 2011
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Devoted to Debt

06 Feb 2009
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Keeping a keen eye on consumer behaviour

07 Sep 2010
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As Pay Falls, Borrowers Lose Ground

01 Sep 2009
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Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut

consumer finance? The household sector in America is huge, representing approximately $61 trillion of assets. And consumer finance businesses are the touch points between the financial system and millions of consumers. Despite its size... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

01 Oct 2002
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The Class of 1977

couple of decades. But the transformation only really hits home when you begin to recall the details of the 1977 business landscape. Sears was where America shopped, as was Montgomery Ward and W.T. Grant. Wal-Mart was nowhere on our radar screens. Westinghouse was a... View Details

Keywords: Desmond Wong

01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

historic emergence of credit and debt was as important in the rise of civilization as technological invention. In the excerpt that follows, he explains the recently developed symbiotic financial relationship between the United States and... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising

assets—which Greece has had a wealth of in recent years. Indeed the last decade has been rough on the country, to vastly understate the impact of a sovereign debt crisis that nearly kneecapped the entire eurozone. A succession of three... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

05 May 2023
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Fail Better

country's history. Greece was three years into a debt crisis, with the Samaras government implementing unpopular tax increases and spending cuts and leading intense negotiations with the IMF, the European Central Bank, and Eurozone... View Details

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