House Price Beliefs and Mortgage Leverage Choice
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House Price Beliefs and Mortgage Leverage Choice∗
We study the effects of homebuyers’ beliefs about future house price changes on their mortgage leverage choice. We show that, from a theoretical perspective, the relationship between homebuyers’ beliefs and their leverage choice is ambiguous, and depends on the magnitude of a “collateral adjustment friction” that reduces homebuyers’ willingness to adjust their house size in response to beliefs ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3001866