Home equity, household savings and consumption

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 21-32

  Benjamin, J D ^a   Chinloy, P ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumption; Home equity; Housing; Marginal propensity to consume; Piggybank; Wealth

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649199774     PISSN: 08955638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11146-007-9059-1     Document Type: Article

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