Psychological determinants of household financial decision making

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: FMBI961080

Project closed

Start date 1 June 1997

End date 31 May 1999

Funded under

• Specific research and technological development programme in the field of the training and mobility of researchers, 1994-1998

Total cost No data

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

TILBURG UNIVERSITY
Netherlands

Objective

The overall objective of my research is to gain a better understanding of how households view their future and make decisions about saving and borrowing. The objective is motivated by the increasing concern for the standard of living of future generations of elderly and by the so-called debt crisis which appeared in many European countries in the beginning of the nineties, characterised by a large number of households with debt problems.
I wish to study the effects of psychological variables on
household saving and borrowing behaviour. I will also address methodological challanges related to the studies of household decision making. To achieve this goal, I will use panel data available at CentER (the VSB-data) as well as collecting qualitative and quantitative data myself. All the variables in focus are measured by multiple items, and the hypotheses will be analysed by using structural equations modelling.

Programme(s)

• FP4-TMR - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of the training and mobility of researchers, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 0302 - Post-doctoral research training grants
• TS14 - Social Economics

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

RGI - Research grants (individual fellowships)

Coordinator

TILBURG UNIVERSITY

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Warandelaan 2 ; 5037 AB TILBURG ; Netherlands
• Total cost: No data

Participants (1)

Not available

Norway

• EU contribution: No data
• Total cost: No data