Head, Allen Charles; Sun, Hongfei; Zhou, Chenggang - 2016
with search in the housing market and defaultable long-term mortgages. In equilibrium, both sellers' asking prices and time …-to-sell increase with the relative size of their outstanding mortgages. In turn, the liquidity of the housing market associated with … time-to-sell determines the mortgage standards of competitive lenders, measured by the maximum loan-to-value (LTV) ratio …
