Leverage and bubbles: a note on the Spanish property market between 1998 and 2006

Daniel Fuentes-Castro
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Applied Economics Letters, 2011, vol. 18, issue 7, 693-695

Abstract: Financial leverage means the debt taken to make a property investment is revalued in the same proportion as the speculative asset acquired. When the expected price rises above a certain threshold, it becomes rational to take on long-term debt to finance a short-term investment. This causes bubbles, which can have disastrous consequences for the economy as a whole. We model here the economics of speculative leverage and calculate the speculative threshold for the Spanish property market over the last decade, showing how far prices were above the mark.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2010.487821

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