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Mortgage cramdown enabled bankruptcy judges to discharge the underwater portion of a mortgage during Chapter 13 bankruptcy before the Supreme Court disallowed this practice in 1993. We exploit the random assignment of cases to judges to quantify the ex-post effects of Chapter 13 bankruptcy over...
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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 tenant unable to pay rent due to a negative income or health expenditure shock. We introduce RGI in a rich quantitative equilibrium model of housing insecurity and show it...
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We employ a model of precautionary saving to study why household saving rates are so high in China and so low in the US … components. This decomposition indicates that over 80 percent of China's saving rate and nearly all of the US saving arises from … the precautionary motive. The difference in the income growth rate between China and the US is vastly more important for …
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