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-sponsored enterprises. We construct a model with competitive housing and mortgage markets in which the government provides banks with … insurance against aggregate shocks to mortgage default risk. We use this model to evaluate aggregate and distributional impacts … equilibrium housing investment, higher mortgage default rates, and lower welfare. The welfare effects of this policy vary …
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can affect household decisions through the cost of new mortgage borrowing and the value of payments on outstanding debt …
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framework. The sticky price channel is dominant when shocks to the policy interest rate are temporary, the mortgage channel is …
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This paper presents a novel method to estimate the depreciation rate of durable goods using a combination of identified marginal and average spending shares. We apply our method to Chinese spending responses to disposable income changes induced by monetary policy in 2008-2009. The marginal...
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Kreditvergabe. Es wird gezeigt, wie durch die anhaltend lockere Geldpolitik der Bank von Japan die Sparkultur in Japan grundlegend …
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I study the role of fiscal policy in the monetary transmission mechanism. I present a novel decomposition of the equilibrium that links the wealth effect, i.e. the revaluation of households' financial and human wealth, to the fiscal response to monetary policy. When monetary policy has fiscal...
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We study the role of wealth effects, i.e. the revaluation of stocks, bonds, and human wealth, in the monetary policy transmission mechanism. The analysis of wealth effects requires to incorporate realistic asset-pricing dynamics and heterogeneous households' portfolios. Thus, we build an...
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We investigate how the business, credit and interest rate cycles affect the monetary transmission mechanism, using state-dependent local projection methods and data from 18 advanced economies. We exploit the time-series variation within countries, as well as cross-sectional variation across...
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improvements in mortgage opportunities seemingly made it easier to purchase a home. This paper uses an equilibrium life-cycle model …
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We investigate whether initial differences in speed of entry into homeownership lead to longlasting differences in …
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