Working Paper
Mental accounting in the housing market
- Author:
- Johan Almenberg and Artashes Karapetyan
- Series:
- Working Paper
- Number:
- 20/2010
Abstract
We report evidence that salience may have economically significant effects on homeowners' borrowing behavior, through a bias in favour of less salient but more costly loans. We outline a simple model in which some consumers are biased. Under plausible assumptions, the bias may affect prices in equilibrium. Market data support the predictions of the model.
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