Motivations for Equity Borrowing: A Welfare-switching Effect

During the early 2000s, mortgage market innovation together with home price appreciation increased the scope for mortgage equity withdrawal. From a macroeconomic perspective, this proved to be an important transmission mechanism for the wealth (particularly collateral) effects of housing. Microecono...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wood, Gavin, Parkinson, S., Searle, B., Smith, S.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32526