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Household Balance Sheets, Aggregate Demand and Unemployment (The Quaid-i-Azam Lecture)

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  • Atif Mian

    (Department of Economics and Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley)

  • Amir Sufi

    (Booth School of Business, University of Chicago)

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U.S. households accumulated debt at an unprecedented pace between 2001 and 2007. In the aftermath of the housing downturn, deleveraging by highly indebted households is the most important factor responsible for the current economic slump. The deleveraging process has led to sharp drops in both aggregate demand and employment. We argue that meaningful policies aimed at facilitating debt-reduction for under-water homeowners in the short run, and replacing non-contingent debt with contingent-debt in the long run are essential for a robust and sustained recovery.

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  • Atif Mian & Amir Sufi, 2011. "Household Balance Sheets, Aggregate Demand and Unemployment (The Quaid-i-Azam Lecture)," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 50(4), pages 285-294.
    • Handle: RePEc:pid:journl:v:50:y:2011:i:4:p:285-294
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    1. Hulya Dagdeviren & Jiayi Balasuriya & Christopher Nicholas, 2022. "Spatial dynamics of post-crisis deleveraging [Financial geography II: financial geographies of housing and real estate]," Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, vol. 22(6), pages 1225-1246.

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