In this paper, we provide a new empirical analysis of the dynamic portfolio decisions of households by simultaneously considering their stock market participation and home tenure choices. There is already a huge body of literature on housing status (own/rent) decisions and many contributions...

This review of the literature presents the main tools and results of research at the crossroads between finance and macroeconomics. The literature seeks to jointly analyze the economic cycle and fluctuations in financial-asset prices.Our article follows this approach:we offer a critical analysis...

This paper proposes a quantitative evaluation of the time-to-plan technology in order to investigate up to which point this mechanism could constitute a satisfactory alternative to the well-known capital adjustment cost technology. We show that the time-to-plan mechanism reproduces a realistic...

We show that adjustment cost models with labor supply can explain both asset returns and business cycle facts when adjustment costs penalize the changes of investment. This conclusion stands in contrast to results obtained in the literature with adjustment costs that penalize the changes of capital.

The present paper contributes to the body of knowledge on search frictions in credit markets by demonstrating their ability to explain why the net interest margins of banks behave countercyclically. During periods of expansion, a fall in the net interest margin proceeds from two mechanisms: (i)...

La chaire Ville & Immobilier publie aujourd’hui une étude relative à l’impact du PTZ + sur la solvabilité des ménages. Cette étude a été réalisée dans le cadre des travaux de la Chaire, notamment du baromètre du pouvoir d’achat immobilier résidentiel. Elle montre que le...

La chaire Ville & Immobilier publie aujourd’hui une étude relative à l’impact du PTZ + sur la solvabilité des ménages. Cette étude a été réalisée dans le cadre des travaux de la Chaire, notamment du baromètre du pouvoir d’achat immobilier résidentiel. Elle montre que le...