Accelerating Inflation and Nonassumable Fixed-Rate Mortgages: Effects On Consumer Choice and Welfare
- 1 April 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Public Finance Quarterly
- Vol. 10 (2) , 158-184
- https://doi.org/10.1177/109114218201000203
Abstract
As a result of both the decline of real user cost of owner-occupied housing and the failure of this cost for nonresidential investment to fail similarly, some have argued that the U.S. economy has overinvested to housing at the expense of industrial capital and thus has suffered substantial productivity losses.Keywords
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