inflation targeting. This way the central bank tries to address excessive household debt. While the merits of such policy have …

fluctuations in household wealth have driven major swings in economic activity. This paper considers so-called wealth effects - the … impact of changes in wealth on household consumption and the overall macroeconomy. There is an extensive existing literature …

This paper examines macroeconomic dynamics of household debt and housing prices. Drawing on Minsky's insights into … financial instability and cycles, our framework combines household debt dynamics with behavioral asset price dynamics in a … Keynesian macro model. We show that endogenous boom-bust cycles can emerge through the interaction between household debt and …