Arce, Oscar; López-Salido, J David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
-cycle model where households face collateral constraints that tie their credit capacity to the value of their houses and examine … extract utility from their homes, landlords that obtain rents, and investors. We show that an economy with tighter collateral … constraints is more prone to bubbles which, in turn, tend to have a larger size but are less fragile in face of fund …