Housing Wealth and Consumption: The Role of Heterogeneous Credit Constraints

S. Boragan Aruoba, Ronel Elul and Sebnem Kalemli Ozcan

No 22-34, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Abstract: We quantify the role of heterogeneity in households’ financial constraints in explaining the large decline in consumption between 2006 and 2009. Using household-level data, we show that in addition to a direct effect of changes in house prices, there are sizable indirect effects from general equilibrium feedback and bank health. About 60% of the aggregate response of consumption to changes in house prices is explained by ex-ante and ex-post financial constraints, where only a specific set of households face binding ex-post financial constraints as a result of declining house prices. We find a negligible wealth effect once we account for the role of heterogonous financial constraints

Keywords: financial crisis; mortgage; individual-level data; general equilibrium; bank health; credit supply (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 O16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 63
Date: 2022-09-28
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DOI: 10.21799/frbp.wp.2022.34

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