Beliefs, Aggregate Risk, and the U.S. Housing Boom

Margaret Jacobson

No 2022-061, Finance and Economics Discussion Series from Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)

Abstract: Endogenously optimistic beliefs about future house prices can account for the path and standard deviation of house prices in the U.S. housing boom of the 2000s. In a general equilibrium model with incomplete markets and aggregate risk, agents form beliefs about future house prices in response to shocks to fundamentals. In an income expansion with looser credit conditions, agents are more likely to underpredict house prices and revise up their beliefs. Matching the standard deviation and steady rise in house prices results in homeownership becoming less affordable later in the boom as well as consumption dynamics that match the data.

Keywords: Housing boom; Aggregate risk; Heterogeneous agents; Incomplete information (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C68 E20 E30 R21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 65 p.
Date: 2022-09-23
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Working Paper: Beliefs, Aggregate Risk, and the U.S. Housing Boom (2025)
Working Paper: Beliefs, Aggregate Risk, and the U.S. Housing Boom (2019)
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DOI: 10.17016/FEDS.2022.061

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