fluctuations in household wealth have driven major swings in economic activity. This paper considers so-called wealth effects - the … impact of changes in wealth on household consumption and the overall macroeconomy. There is an extensive existing literature …

This paper examines macroeconomic dynamics of household debt and housing prices. Drawing on Minsky's insights into … financial instability and cycles, our framework combines household debt dynamics with behavioral asset price dynamics in a … Keynesian macro model. We show that endogenous boom-bust cycles can emerge through the interaction between household debt and …

population. In a model of household borrowing with credit constraints and endogenous house prices, we show that less constrained … level data on the universe of household credit in Belgium to document a shift in the distribution of debt over age, with … constrained, do not contribute to the rise in household debt. To identify the elasticity of household debt to the interest rate …

A rapid increase in household debt is undeniably a main concern among policymakers. Studies indicating the damaging … effect of rapid rise in household debt towards economic growth attracted many researchers to determine its reasons. The risk … from high household debt is not only applicable to advanced economies, but also inherent in emerging economies. Thus, the …

As Korea's household debt has increased rapidly since the mid-2000s, concerns that its economy's hard-wired leveraging … long-run trend. Housing preferences and monetary shocks can both trigger deleveraging, as most household debt is profoundly … macroeconomic effects of deleveraging. Because a lower loan-to-value (LTV) ceiling limits the size of household debt, the …

population. In a model of household borrowing with credit constraints and endogenous house prices, we show that less constrained … level data on the universe of household credit in Belgium to document a shift in the distribution of debt over age, with … constrained, do not contribute to the rise in household debt. To identify the elasticity of household debt to the interest rate …