The effects of households' indebtedness on their house-selling decisions are studied in a dynamic equilibrium model with search in the housing market and defaultable long-term mortgages. In equilibrium, both sellers' asking prices and time-to-sell increase with the relative size of their...

The effects of households' indebtedness on their house selling decisions, the implications of these decisions for default and the effects of policies intended to reduce the incentive to default are studied in a dynamic model with search in the housing market and defaultable long-term mortgages....

Many countries simultaneously suffer from high inflation, low growth and poorly developed financial sectors. In this paper, we integrate a microfounded model of money and finance into a model of endogenous growth to examine the effects of inflation on welfare, growth and the size of the...