Houses as Collateral and Household Debt Deleveraging in Korea

As Korea’s household debt has increased rapidly since the mid-2000s, concerns that its economy’s hard-wired leveraging may negatively impact economic activity have grown. Calls are being made for policy actions to return the economy to its long-run trend. Housing preferences and monetary shocks can...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Song Joonhyuk, Ryu Doojin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2021-06-01
Series:Economics : the Open-Access, Open-Assessment e-Journal
Subjects:
e31
e52
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/econ-2021-0002