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"Why did America embrace consumer credit over the course of the twentieth century, when most other countries did not? How did American policy makers by the late twentieth century come to believe that more credit would make even poor families better off? This book traces the historical emergence...
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We specify and estimate a lifecycle model of consumption, housing demand and labor supply in an environment where individuals may file for bankruptcy or default on their mortgage. Uncertainty in the model is driven by house price shocks, education specific productivity shocks, and catastrophic...
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We analyze the value of insurance when individuals have access to credit markets. Loans allow consumers to smooth … financial shocks over time, decreasing the value of consumption smoothing from insurance. We derive formulas for the value of … insurance that can be taken to data, and show how that value depends on individual characteristics and features of loans. We …
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A rent guarantee insurance (RGI) policy makes a limited number of rent payments to the landlord on behalf of an insured … society. While unrestricted access is not financially viable with either private or public insurance providers due to moral …
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patterns. This part covers five topics: consumption and savings, borrowing, payments, asset allocation, and insurance. The …
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