Home Ownership, Household Leverage, and Hyperbolic Discounting
Preprint
- 1 January 2012
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier BV in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
I examine tenure and mortgage choice in an equilibrium model in which households make decisions as if they discount hyperbolically rather than exponentially. OvKeywords
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