Mortgages and financial expectations: A household-level analysis

Southern Economic Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 857-878

  Brown, Sarah ^a   Garino, Gaia ^b   Taylor, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

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