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The paper examines three aspects of a financial crisis of domestic origin. The first section studies the evolution of a debt-financed consumption boom supported by rising asset prices, leading to a credit crunch and fluctuations in the real economy, and, ultimately, to debt deflation. The next...
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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...
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The paper examines three aspects of a financial crisis of domestic origin. The first section studies the evolution of a debt-financed consumption boom supported by rising asset prices, leading to a credit crunch and fluctuations in the real economy, and, ultimately, to debt deflation. The next...
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This paper proposes and tests a theory of credit-driven asset bubbles which are neutral in their real effects. When a … asset bubbles can form which exactly offset a bubble in household liabilities. Surprisingly, evidence from a VAR using long …-run restrictions supports the idea that asset bubbles are approximately neutral in their real effects before 2007. The evidence becomes …
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