Household Leverage and the Recession

Callum Jones

No 933, 2018 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: During the Great Recession, employment declined more in regions where household debt declined more. We study a model where liquidity constraints amplify the response of consumption and employment to changes in debt. We estimate the model using Bayesian likelihood methods on state-level and aggregate data. Credit shocks account well for the differential rise and fall of employment across individual states. Credit shocks explain a smaller fraction of the initial drop in aggregate employment but the tightening of household credit greatly contributes to the slow recovery in the aftermath of recession.

Date: 2018
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Journal Article: Household Leverage and the Recession (2022)
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