Houses as ATMs: Mortgage Refinancing and Macroeconomic Uncertainty
Mortgage refinancing activity associated with extraction of home equity contains a strongly countercyclical component consistent with household demand for liquidity. We estimate a structural model of liquidity management featuring countercyclical idiosyncratic labor income uncertainty, long- and sho...
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Language: | English |
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Wiley
2021
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129710 |