Project description
Credit supply shocks and safety impact on household welfare
Debates over social safety net reforms remain central in many countries, particularly amid fiscal pressures and demographic changes. As formal protections face increasing strain, understanding alternative mechanisms such as access to credit that help households manage income risk becomes more urgent for policymakers. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the CSCS project explores how lender-imposed credit supply dynamics influence households’ ability to withstand idiosyncratic income shocks that are unrelated to business cycles. Using survey data, the project examines not only changes in savings and consumption but also overlooked financial coping strategies and their impact on households' economic outcomes and wellbeing. The findings will help policymakers design more effective insurance solutions to protect household stability, health and overall quality of life.
Objective
The project The Credit Safety Net and the Costs of Credit Supply Shocks (CSCS) examines the effects of lender-imposed credit supply dynamics on households ability to weather idiosyncratic income shocks that are unrelated to the business cycle. It relies on longitudinal household surveys and leverages unexpected and exogenous health shocks to identify individual-specific, random variations in exposure to credit supply shocks. Beyond the foregone satisfaction of current consumption, CSCS emphasizes welfare costs by examining not only changes in household consumption and savings but also other financial coping strategies. These include asset divestments, such as exiting homeownership, and behavioral changes related to income-generating activities, like working overtime or taking sick leave. These outcome variables are crucial for welfare considerations given their implications for health and life quality conditions, yet they are often overlooked when evaluating the costs of imperfect credit markets. The policy implications are immediate and relate to a potential need for social insurance mechanisms to provide effective insurance for households.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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60323 Frankfurt
Germany
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