-based housing market model, calibrated using U.K. household survey data. We apply different Loan-to-Value (LTV) caps for different … household debt, wealth inequality and consumption volatility. The households' consumption function, in the model, incorporates a … caps affect household debt, wealth inequality and consumption volatility differently, mediated by changes in the housing …

Household debt and house prices in the United Kingdom rose substantially between 1987 and 2006. In this paper we use a … calibrated overlapping generations model of the household sector to examine the extent to which changes in demographics, lower …

an accumulation of household debt and a downturn in house prices has a substantial adverse impact on consumption. …

show that non-recourse law increases real household consumption volatility by amplifying housing price cycles in non …