Saving Up or Settling Down: Home Ownership over the Life Cycle

Jonathan Halket and Santhanagopalan Vasudev
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Santhanagopalan Vasudev: University of Essex

Review of Economic Dynamics, 2014, vol. 17, issue 2, 345-366

Abstract: In a Bewley model with endogenous price volatility, home ownership and mobility across locations and jobs, we assess the contribution of financial constraints, housing illiquidities and house price risk to home ownership over the life cycle. The model can explain the rise in home ownership and fall in mobility over the life cycle. While some households rent due to borrowing constraints in the mortgage market, factors that affect propensities to save and move, such as risky house values and transactions costs, are equally important determinants of the ownership rate. (Copyright: Elsevier)

Keywords: Home ownership; Incomplete markets; Illiquid assets; Financial constraints (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C62 E21 J61 R21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.red.2013.06.002

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