How Large Are Housing and Financial Wealth Effects? A New Approach

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-79

  Carroll, Christopher D ^a   Otsuka, Misuzu ^b   Slacalek, Jiri ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OECD   (France)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asset prices; Consumption dynamics; Housing wealth; Wealth effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751604873     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: 15384616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2010.00365.x     Document Type: Article

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