Household Finance: An Emerging Field

Luigi Guiso and Paolo Sodini

Chapter Chapter 21 in Handbook of the Economics of Finance, 2013, vol. 2, pp 1397-1532 from Elsevier

Abstract: Household finance—the normative and positive study of how households use financial markets to achieve their objectives—has gained a lot of attention over the past decade and has become a field with its own identity, style, and agenda. In this chapter we review its evolution and most recent developments.

Keywords: Household finance; financial mistakes; financial literacy; portfolio allocation; debt decision; consumer financial regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-44-459406-8.00021-4

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