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This paper employs a calibrated model of the US economy to analyze the boom and bust in house prices as well as the shifts in the distribution of wealth during the years around the Great Recession. We replicate the dynamics of the housing market using shocks to aggregate income, the distribution...
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The paper aims at deriving some stylised facts for financial, real, and monetary policy developments during asset price booms. We observe various macroeconomic variables in a pre-boom, boom and post-boom phase. Not all booms lead to large output losses. We analyse the differences between...
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In this chapter, we review and discuss the large body of research that has developed over the past 10-plus years that explores the interconnection of macroeconomics, finance, and housing. We focus on three major topics—housing and the business cycle, housing and portfolio choice, and housing...
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of financial bubbles depress the real economy? This paper addresses these questions by constructing an infinite …-horizon heterogeneous agent general equilibrium model with speculative bubbles. We characterize conditions under which storable goods …, regardless of their intrinsic values, can carry bubbles and agents are willing to invest in such bubbles despite their positive …
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Economics with equations for quantitative easing and endogenous bubbles in a new model. By running the model under a variety of …
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During the Great Recession, the collapse of consumption across the US varied greatly but systematically with house-price declines. Our message is that household financial health matters for understanding this relationship. Two facts are essential for our finding: (1) the decline in house prices...
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