cycle cannot be accounted for by the liberalization and subsequent tightening of mortgage credit standards that occurred …

We study the role of monetary policy for the dynamics of U.S. mortgage debt, which is the largest component of … household indebtedness. A timevarying parameter VAR model allows us to study the variation in the mortgage debt sensitivity to … quantitatively similar to the VAR results. A sacrifice ratio for mortgage debt reveals that a policy tightening directed towards …