Credit, Housing Collateral and Consumption: Evidence from the UK, Japan and the US.
The consumption behaviour of UK, US and Japanese households is examined and compared using a modern Ando-Modigliani style consumption function. The models incorporate income growth expectations, income uncertainty, housing collateral and other credit effects. These models therefore capture importa...
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Format: | Working paper |
Language: | English |
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Department of Economics (University of Oxford)
2010
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