Housing and Credit Markets
What is the role of credit for explaining house price dynamics? What caused the boom and bust in housing markets prior to the financial crisis? How did macroprudential policies after the crisis affect housing and borrowing?
Part I: Credit and housing markets
Lecture 1 Introduction
Lecture 2 Credit and business cycles (Mian, Sufi and Verner, 2017)
Lecture 3 Credit growth in the financial crisis (Mian & Sufi, 2009; Adelino, Schoar and Severino, 2016)
Lecture 4 House price expectations (Armona, Fuster and Zafar, 2019)
Lecture 5 Credit shocks and house prices (Favara and Imbs, 2015)
Lecture 6 Credit vs expectations (Kaplan, Mitman and Violante, 2020)
Lecture 7 Credit vs expectations part 2 (Greenwald & Guren, 2021)
Part II: Macroprudential policies and the housing markets
Lecture 9 Mortgage payments and borrowing (Bäckman, Moran and van Santen, 2025)
Lecture 10 LTV policies (DeFusco, Johnson and Mondragon, 2020)
Lecture 11 Macroprudential policies (Acharya, Bergant, Crosignani, Eisert and McCann, 2022)
Lecture 12 Interest-rates and house prices (Gorea Kryvtsov, and Kudlyak, 2022)
Lecture 13 The broader picture – putting it all together
Household Finance and Consumption
The course focuses on understanding household consumption-savings behavior and heterogeneity in household behavior, a key feature of modern macroeconomics. The first part studies how household consumption responds to different types of shocks, and the second part focuses on heterogeneity in returns, financial literacy, and time preferences.
Lecture 1 Introduction to household finance
Part 1: The consumption response to shock
Lecture 2 Consumption in life-cycle models (Kaplan and Violante, 2022)
Lecture 3 Income shocks (Fuster, Kaplan, and Zafar, 2021)
Lecture 4 Housing wealth shocks (Mian, Sufi, and Rao, 2013; Aladangady, 2017)
Lecture 5 Stock market shocks (Di Maggio, Kermani, and Majlesi, 2020; Andersen, Johannesen, and Sheridan, 2024)
Lecture 6 Interest-rate shocks (Holm, Paul and Tischbirek, 2021; Andersen, Johannesen, Jørgensen and Peydro, 2023)
Lecture 7 Hand-to-mouth households (Aguiar, Biils and Boar, 2024)
Part 2: Heterogeneity
Lecture 8 Wealth inequality (Fagereng, Guiso, Malacrino, and Pistaferri, 2020; Bach, Calvet, and Sodini, 2020)
Lecture 9 Time preferences (Epper Fehr, Fehr-Duda, Kreiner, Lassen, Leth-Petersen, & Rasmussen, 2020)
Lecture 10: Financial Literacy (Lusardi, Michaud and Mitchell, 2017)
University of Mannheim
Household Finance, Bachelor (Grade: 1.1) & Master-level
Credit and Housing markets, Master-level (Grade: 1.1)
Household Finance Seminar, Bachelor (Grade: 1.0) & Master
Aarhus University
Macroeconomic, advanced Bachelor-level, Aarhus University
Winner of Lecturer of the Year Award (2023)
Lund University
Macroeconomic Theory and Economic Policy, bachelor-level course in macroeconomics