Overview
- Provides an in-depth description of the increasing knowledge regarding negative consequences of young adults’ indebtedness and over-indebtedness, such as health problems
- Examines the supply of young adults borrowing in Sweden with special focus on high-interest instant loans and more easily available types of credit
- Addresses the impact on individual borrowing decisions of aggressive marketing, the role of consumption desires, and the importance of feelings of lack of financial resources
- Discusses the roles of legislation and the various tools available to legislators to dampen young adults’ indebtedness
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction to Young Adults’ Indebtedness
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Psychological Factors Explaining Young Adults’ Indebtedness
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Financial Information and Young Adults’ Borrowing Decisions
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Legislator Tools and Possibilities for Healthy Lending
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About this book
This book reviews problems with credit use and causes of indebtedness among young adults, while uncovering possibilities to encourage a healthier attitude towards loans in this segment of the population. Both consumption loans and mortgages are covered in order to adequately represent real-world credit use by young people about to enter adulthood. It focuses on three distinctive actors: the legislative authorities, the financial institution, most commonly a bank, and finally the individual borrower. More specifically, the book discusses the functioning of these three entities in the context of young adults borrowing behaviour, and would appeal to academics, researchers and students of financial institutions and banking.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jeanette Carlsson Hauff received a PhD from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and is now an Assistant Professor at the same university. Her research focuses on consumer behaviour and financial services and she has been published in peer-reviewed international journals (such as European Journal of Marketing) and book chapters.
Tommy Gärling was the endowed professor of psychology at University of Gothenburg, Sweden from 1992 to 2006. He is a fellow of the International Association of Applied Psychology (divisions of economic psychology, environmental psychology, traffic and transportation psychology) and was president of the environmental psychology division from 1998 to 2002.
Ted Lindblom is Professor at the Department of Business Administration at the School of Business, Economics and Law, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His current research mainly concerns industrial and financial management with particular focus on corporate finance, investment and financial structure decisions, banking, risk and regulation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Indebtedness in Early Adulthood
Book Subtitle: Causes and Remedies
Editors: Jeanette Carlsson Hauff, Tommy Gärling, Ted Lindblom
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13996-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13995-7Published: 28 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-13996-4Published: 16 March 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 187
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Banking, Personal Finance/Wealth Management/Pension Planning