Browsing Arbeidsnotater / Working Papers by Subject "salience"
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Mental Accounting in the Housing Market
(Working Papers;20/2010, Working paper, 2010)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 ... -
Salience of Debt and Homebuyers’ Credit Decisions
(Working Papers;21/2015, Working paper, 2015)We show how a regulatory disclosure of hidden debt can eliminate a large mispricing in housing. In a setting where homebuyers must combine several sources of debt, they are biased towards hidden loans, especially if they ... -
The Hidden Costs of Hidden Debt
(Working Papers;22/2011, Working paper, 2011)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. Survey evidence corroborates the existence of ...