Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management

 

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CHASM is a research centre based jointly in the School of Social Policy and the Birmingham Business School. The aim of CHASM is to provide a focus for world-class research on the role of assets and their distribution in people's lives, from pensions to housing to financial savings. 

Budget 2013: Impact of the Budget on tax breaks and benefits

Karen Rowlingson contributes to the debate on the 2013 Budget and discusses the bedroom tax, benefits and the minimum wage.

Policy Commission on the Distribution of Wealth

Following the establishment of a Policy Commission on the Distribution of Wealth, two public debates are planned for May 2013. 

CHASM has regular Briefing Papers on a variety of subjects:

Wealth Taxes: problems and practice around the world

Socialising the loss, personalising the responsibility, and privatising the response: The Irish policy approach to personal debt post 2008

Misconceptions of the financial crisis

What is responsible lending and borrowing?

Lending to people on low incomes: an overview