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results suggest a potential downside of using household credit as stimulus in emerging markets …From 2011 to 2014, the Brazilian government conducted a heavily advertised major credit expansion program through … financial literacy. We trace the impact of credit stimulus on borrowers’ consumption through the 2011-16 business cycle, and …
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concerns of selection bias and reverse causality through household fixed effects and an instrumental strategy that exploits …
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Lower interest rates and an easing of liquidity constraints have led to a substantial rise in household debt over the … past two decades. The greater indebtedness has made the household sector more sensitive to changes in interest rates …
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We develop an incomplete-markets heterogeneous agent New-Keynesian (HANK) model in which households are allowed to lend and borrow, subject to a borrowing constraint. We show that, in this framework, forward guidance, that is the promise by the central bank to lower future interest rates, can be...
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-service-to-income (DSTI) limits - contain the build-up of systemic risk by reducing the probability and conditional impact of a crisis. While …
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We examine the effect of monetary policy on household spending when households are indebted and interest rates on … the policy rate, relative to a household with no debt. This is true among households with low or high levels of illiquid …
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We examine the cash-flow channel of monetary policy, i.e. the effect of monetary policy on spending when households hold debt linked to short-term rates such as adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs). Using registry-based data on Swedish households, we estimate substantial heterogeneity in consumption...
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