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Did the Housing Bust Cause the Great Recession?

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  • Kurt Mitman

    (University of Pennsylvania)

  • Gianluca Violante

    (New York University)

  • Greg Kaplan

    (Princeton University)

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The Great Recession of 2007-09 was preceded by sustained period of house price growth that ended in a large aggregate decline of house prices. Our paper evaluates quantitatively the extent to which changes in house prices can explain the drop in consumption witnessed during the Great Recession. In particular, we are interested in understanding how changes in house prices affect mortgage leverage decisions by households and how these changes in household balance sheets translate into consumption responses. If households increase mortgage debt in response to house price increases and use the extracted funds to finance contemporaneous consumption, then a large drop in house prices could lead to household deleveraging and a large contraction in consumption.

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  • Kurt Mitman & Gianluca Violante & Greg Kaplan, 2013. "Did the Housing Bust Cause the Great Recession?," 2013 Meeting Papers 1300, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    • Handle: RePEc:red:sed013:1300
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