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generation model with housing. We find that the long-run importance of the introduction of new mortgage products for the …
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This paper estimates the importance of temptation (Gul and Pesendorfer, 2001) for consumption smoothing and asset accumulation in a structural life-cycle model. We use two complementary estimation strategies: first, we estimate the Euler equation of this model; and second we match liquid and...
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looking at the effect of a reduction in the maximum loan-to-value (LTV) ratio on homeownership rates, house prices and housing … is initially loose, allowing households to lever up against the collateral value of their housing. A reduction in the LTV … is the fall in house prices and the greater is the rise in the share of constrained homeowners and housing wealth …
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This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of household debt dynamics in Malta between 2010 and 2020. Drawing on the Household Finance and Consumption Survey, it argues that a process of financialisation of the household is underway on the Maltese islands, primarily via the mortgage market....
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Mortgages are prime examples of long-term nominal loans. As a result, under incomplete asset markets, monetary policy can affect household decisions through the cost of new mortgage borrowing and the value of payments on outstanding debt. These channels are distinct from the transmission through...
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This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of discrete choice for labor supply, fertility and transition from tenant to home-owner,to investigate the secular decline in home ownership over the past several decades,wholly attributable to households postponing the purchase of their first...
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