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During the Great Recession, the collapse of consumption across the U.S. varied greatly but systematically with house-price declines. We find that financial distress among U.S. households amplified the sensitivity of consumption to house-price shocks. We uncover two essential facts: (1) the...
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individuals may file for bankruptcy or default on their mortgage. Uncertainty in the model is driven by house price shocks …
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the Maltese islands, primarily via the mortgage market. This process is characterised by (i) financial extension, in which … more households partake in mortgage finance in their entry to homeownership, and (ii) financial intensity, in which … households accumulate more debt in accessing the property market. In explaining this process, I claim, firstly, that mortgage …
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Using recently available proprietary panel data, we show that while many (35%) US consumers experience financial distress at some point in the life cycle, most of the events of financial distress are primarily concentrated in a much smaller proportion of consumers in persistent trouble. Roughly...
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We provide a model with endogenous portfolios of secured and unsecured household debt. Secured debt is collateralized by durables whereas unsecured debt can be discharged in bankruptcy procedures. We show that the model matches the main quantitative characteristics of observed wealth and debt...
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