Consumer Credit In Australia During The 20th Century

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Consumer Credit In Australia During The 20th Century

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Pierre van der Eng ()

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This article surveys the growth of consumer credit in Australia during the 20th century, particularly after World War II. Until the 1970s, the regulation of Australia’s financial market caused formal consumer credit to be provided mainly by finance companies under hire-purchase contracts, largely for the purchase of cars and household durables. Deregulation of the financial market since the 1960s allowed banks to gain a dominant share in the market for personal loans. Quantification of long-term trends is difficult, but broad estimates suggest sustained growth in per capita indebtedness during 1945-2007.

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Paper provided by Australian National University, College of Business and Economics, School of Economics in its series ANUCBE School of Economics Working Papers with number 2008-489.

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Length: 31 pages
Date of creation: Jan 2008
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Handle: RePEc:acb:cbeeco:2008-489

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D14 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Personal Finance
E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
E51 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers
G23 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Pension Funds; Other Private Financial Institutions
N27 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions - - - Africa; Oceania

This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

NEP-ALL-2008-02-09 (All new papers)
NEP-BAN-2008-02-09 (Banking)
NEP-HIS-2008-02-09 (Business, Economic & Financial History)
NEP-MAC-2008-02-09 (Macroeconomics)

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