Excess sensitivity, liquidity constraints, and the collateral role of housing

Macroeconomic Dynamics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 305-326

  Benito, Andrew ^a,b   Mumtaz, Haroon ^a  

^a BANK OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Collateral; Consumption Smoothing; Switching Regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350495828     PISSN: 13651005     EISSN: 14698056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1365100508080061     Document Type: Article

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