Central Bank interest rate decisions, household indebtedness, and psychiatric morbidity and distress: evidence from the UK

Background: Central banks set economy-wide interest rates to meet exclusively economic objectives. There is a strong link between indebtedness and psychiatric morbidity at the individual level, with interest rates being an important factor determining ability to repay debt. However, no prior researc...

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Main Authors: Boyce, Christopher J., Delaney, Liam, Ferguson, Eamonn, Wood, Alex M.
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2018
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51352/