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The vast majority of household wealth in the U.S. is held in illiquid assets, primarily housing, making households vulnerable to unexpected income shocks. To rationalize this preference for illiquidity, we build a life-cycle model where households are tempted to consume their liquid wealth but...
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highlights the importance of liquidity spirals that arise from the interaction of search frictions and endogenous credit … of credit constraints to the depressed housing market. This contraction in credit then deepens the downturn. During booms …
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stance, global real interest rates, distorted incentives in credit markets, and financial innovation created the mix of … drivers of asset prices are global liquidity conditions. Central banks flooded the markets with ample liquidity. Mopping up … this excess liquidity will be one major task for central banks worldwide, which needs to be done in a coordinated fashion …
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. The attractiveness of bonds as liquidity makes aggregate bond demand downward-sloping, so that greater bond supply raises …
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costly credit card debt and holding sizable amounts of low-return liquid assets; this is known as the "credit card debt … for this puzzle: households that accumulate credit card debt may not pay it off using their money in the bank, because … preference uncertainty, and consumer credit and liquidity coexist as means of consumption and saving/borrowing. The calibrated …
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, often referred to as housing liquidity, is an important link that connects housing outcomes with real and credit variables … analysis at the county level, is useful for evaluating the performance of the housing market because credit and local … with the behavior of the housing market. The deterioration in housing liquidity was uniform across all house price tiers (i …
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This study examines the relative importance of liquidity risk for the time-series and cross-section of stock returns in … test of the Amihud (2002) measure and parametric and non-parametric methods to investigate whether liquidity risk is priced … yield a small distance error, other non-liquidity based models fail to yield economically plausible distance values. Our …
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This paper offers new empirical evidence on the marginal propensity to consume out of an unanticipated liquidity shock …
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borrow on their credit cards, adding to their existing debt. Thus the cost of relying on credit cards is likely very high for … drop in income from one year to the next, like one resulting from a layoff or a government shutdown, increased their credit … card borrowing. We do not find evidence that a negative income shock raises consumers' likelihood of revolving on credit …
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This paper examines the optimal allocation of risk across generations whose savings mix is subject to illiquidity in the form of uncertain trading costs. We use a stylized two-period OLG framework, where each generation makes a portfolio allocation decision for retirement, and show that...
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