The common-factor hypothesis is one possible explanation for the housing wealth effect. Under this hypothesis, house … price appreciation is related to changes in consumption as long as the available proxies for the common driver of housing … and non-housing demand are noisy and housing supply is not perfectly elastic. We simulate a model in which a common factor …

This paper produces new evidence and stylised facts on housing, wealth accumulation and wealth distribution, relying on … questions: i) How is homeownership and housing tenure distributed across the population along various socio …-economic characteristics such as income, wealth and age? What is the weight of housing in households’ balance sheets and how does this vary …

This paper quantitatively accounts for the cyclical dynamics of key macroeconomic housing and mortgage market variables … using a tractable, searchtheoretic model of housing with equilibrium mortgage default. To explain these dynamics, the model … constraints. During housing busts, longer selling times spill over into higher foreclosure risk, thereby magnifying the response …

of households hold more wealth than our model suggests is optimal and that this would still be true even if housing …