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This paper reviews recent research on mortgage default, focusing on the relationship of this research to the recent … explicitly addressing reverse causality between rising foreclosures and falling house prices. Mortgage defaults were also a key … researchers to explore the central unsolved question in this area: why mortgage default is so rare, even for households with high …
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We consider a Keynes-Goodwin model of effective demand and the distributive cycle where workers purchase goods and houses with marginal propensity significantly larger than one. They therefore need credit, supplied from asset holders, and have to pay interest on their outstanding debt. In this...
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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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