House Prices and Credit Constraints: Making Sense of the US Experience

Most US house price models break down in the mid-2000s, due to the omission of exogenous changes in mortgage credit supply (associated with the sub-prime mortgage boom) from house price-to-rent ratio and inverted housing demand models. Previous models lack data on credit constraints facing first-tim...

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Main Authors: Duca, J, Muellbauer, J, Murphy, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishing 2011