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business demand for credit and a decline in interest rates. Over time, savings are redirected to mortgage credit, where houses … and mortgage credit leads to high household leverage for low-skill workers, increasing default rates and foreclosures …. Restraining mortgage borrowing is more effective than subsidies to limit mortgage defaults, by containing both leverage and house …
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!reased demand for mortgage loans is caused by substitution from other forms of consumercredit. Contrary to results reported in the …
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In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for twoearnerhouseholds. The novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collectivehousehold model, where the internally produced goods and the externally purchased goodsare assumed to be public....
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between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we use data on 9820 firms from twenty …
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In this paper we replace the Gaussian errors in the standard Gaussian, linear state space model with stochastic volatility processes. This is called a GSSF-SV model. We show that conventional MCMC algorithms for this type of model are ineffective, but that this problem can be removed by...
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In this paper we derive a market value for Guaranteed Annuity Optionusing martingale modeling techniques. Furthermore, we show how to construct a static replicating portfolio of vanillainterest rate swaptions that replicates the Guaranteed Annuity Option. Finally, we illustrate with historical...
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