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We argue that positive comovements between land prices and business investment are a driving force behind the broad impact of land-price dynamics on the macroeconomy. We develop an economic mechanism that captures the comovements by incorporating two key features into a DSGE model: we introduce...
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We integrate the housing market and the labor market in a dynamic general equilibrium model with credit and search …
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This paper surveys the literature on the linkages between asset prices and macroeconomic outcomes. It focuses on three major questions. First, what are the basic theoretical linkages between asset prices and macroeconomic outcomes? Second, what is the empirical evidence supporting these...
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This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the macroeconomic implications of financial imperfections. It focuses on two major channels through which financial imperfections can affect macroeconomic outcomes. The first channel, which operates through the demand side of finance...
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The paper examines three aspects of a financial crisis of domestic origin. The first section studies the evolution of a debt-financed consumption boom supported by rising asset prices, leading to a credit crunch and fluctuations in the real economy, and, ultimately, to debt deflation. The next...
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statistical evidences that the movements of aggregate consumption, disposable income, housing wealth and financial wealth are tied … together. However, it also suggests that the short run variations in the Swedish housing market are largely dissociated with … consumer spending. Meanwhile, it is shown that the strength of the linkage between consumption and housing wealth is not …
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This paper studies the role of credit constraints in accounting for the dynamics of firm exit during the Great Recession. We present novel firm-level evidence on the role of credit constraints on exit behavior during the Great Recession. Firms in financial distress, with tighter access to...
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1990s, when barriers to setting up private businesses, trading housing, and migrating from rural to urban areas are struck … sector, uses housing as the main vehicle of wealth accumulation over the course of a long- time housing boom. Our …
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-sponsored enterprises. We construct a model with competitive housing and mortgage markets in which the government provides banks with … of this government subsidy of owner-occupied housing. Preliminary findings indicate that the subsidy leads to higher … equilibrium housing investment, higher mortgage default rates, and lower welfare. The welfare effects of this policy vary …
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identify behavioural and Minskyan theories of housing cycles as suitable frameworks to theorise the impact of housing on growth …. However, this literature does not provide an analysis of cross-country differences in housing cycles. Third, drawing on the … CPE literature on housing systems, we argue that institutions such as homeownership rates and mortgage-credit encouraging …
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