House Price Beliefs and Mortgage Leverage Choice

We study the relationship between homebuyers' beliefs about future house price changes and their mortgage leverage choices. Whether more pessimistic homebuyers choose higher or lower leverage depends on their willingness and ability to reduce the size of their housing market investments. When h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bailey, M. (Author), Dávila, E. (Author), Kuchler, T. (Author), Stroebel, J. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2019
Subjects:
D12
D84
E44
G12
R21
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