With cheaper credit available are consumers over-leveraging themselves? How does this unfold and who are the most vulnerable?
Occasional Paper No.49 (PDF)[1]
Summary
With the cost of living rising and cheaper finance available, concerns are rising about consumer indebtedness and potential financial difficulty. Data available until now has made understanding patterns difficult. By looking at the credit files across borrower types, we can look at the characteristics as well as the circumstances that lead consumers into financial distress. For the purposes of this large-scale quantitative analysis, we consider a narrow objective distress measure (based on missed payments), whilst recognising that this likely understates the true incidence of distress. Future work may include some investigation of broader more subjective measures.
Authors
Adiya Belgibayeva, Karen Croxson, Zanna Iscenko, Jesse Leary and Jonathan Shaw.
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