Financial Frictions, the Housing Market, and Unemployment

Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau

No 892, 2015 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: We develop a two-sector search-matching model of the labor market with imperfect mobility of workers, augmented to incorporate a housing market and a frictional goods market. Homeowners use home equity as collateral to finance idiosyncratic consumption opportunities. A financial innovation that raises the acceptability of homes as collateral raises house prices and reduces unemployment. It also triggers a reallocation of workers, with the direction of the change depending on firms' market power in the goods market. A calibrated version of the model under adaptive learning can account for house prices, sectoral labor flows, and unemployment rate changes over 1996-2010.

Date: 2015
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dge, nep-ino, nep-mac and nep-ure
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