What is the role of heterogenous house-price expectations for boom-bust cycles in the housing market? We exploit a … unique Dutch panel data set on households' house price expectations and their consumption, savings and housing choices for … the period 2003-2016. This period was characterized by a pronounced boom-bust cycle in the housing market. Conditioning …

in recent years, due partly to the fact that tax breaks for housing purchase, reforms in the housing loan market since … the early 2000s, and expansionary monetary policy enabled Japanese households to purchase housing at a younger age than … households who have chosen variablerate housing loans has increased in recent years. …

In this paper, we construct a life cycle model with housing demand and incomplete market to explore the relationship … between housing demand, accompanied with underdeveloped housing finance, and the household saving rate in China. We … hold a considerable amount of non-housing asset such as deposit, cash, and bond as it is difficult for them to insure …

In this paper, we study a household’s optimal life-cycle housing choices by calibrating a model with uninsurable … choose to convert illiquid home equity to liquid asset to finance non-housing consumption in the absence of lower borrowing … the importance of labor income and house price risks in housing decisions. In comparison to the benchmark case, a higher …