Exchange Rate Regime And A Household’s Choice Of Debt

Neven Vidaković

No 1, Effectus - Working Paper Series from Effectus - University College for Law and Finance

Abstract: The present paper looks at the impact of exchange rate regime and a household’s choice of debt. One of the characteristics of economic transition in eastern European countries has been an increase in overall debt holding. Standard economic theory assumes the relationship S=I. According to this relationship, households should use debt only to purchase durable goods; however, in some eastern European countries, there has been a large increase in consumer loans, economic behavior not recognized under the standard no-Ponzi scheme assumption of economic models. This paper aims to investigate the case when debt is used to live above a household’s standard budget constraint. Our model shows that the significant impact on the choice of the amount the debt households are willing to hold is due to the choice of the exchange rate regime made by the central bank. The model investigates a household’s behavior in two main cases: a stable exchange rate regime (exchange rate regime with FX risk) and a variable exchange rate regime (exchange rate regime without exchange rate risk). Households make different choices under alternative exchange rate regimes; this pattern of behavior is presented in the model and verified by the data.

Keywords: credit; exchange rate; dynamic programming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C61 E51 E58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2015-11
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