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This video video discusses the analysis of unemployment insurance (UI) and its role as an automatic stabilizer during economic downturns, particularly in the context of past crises such as the 2008 financial crisis and COVID-19. The authors highlight the need for automatic stabilizers—policies that do not require legislative approval and react automatically to economic changes, such as increased unemployment.

This video video outlines two key mechanisms introduced in the study:

1. **Household Balance Sheet Effects**: When unemployment insurance becomes more generous, households tend to save less and borrow more, particularly in the mortgage market. This video video leads to increased debt levels, which can heighten vulnerability during economic shocks as households may be more likely to default on their mortgages.

2. **Bank Balance Sheet Effects**: More generous unemployment insurance results in banks having riskier mortgage portfolios, as they may offer lower down payment requirements due to decreased income risk. This video video increases the likelihood of defaults, particularly during economic downturns when house prices and incomes decrease.

The authors argue that while unemployment insurance may support unemployed individuals, it also negatively impacts the stability of the broader economy due to higher indebtedness among households and increased risk for banks. Thus, they claim that the stabilizing effects of unemployment insurance could be outweighed by these adverse consequences, suggesting that relying solely on UI during crises is insufficient.

As a solution, the text advocates for integrating macroprudential policies—such as stricter lending standards alongside unemployment insurance—to mitigate these negative effects while still providing social safety nets. Future research may explore similar effects of other social policies, such as health insurance and progressive taxation. Overall, the findings suggest that policymakers should avoid over-relying on unemployment insurance and consider a broader range of fiscal interventions.

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We wanted to analyze, whether unemploy insurance,

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and maybe similar policies, stabilize economic downturn.

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So we were interested this topic because especially

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after like 2009, CRI eight crisis in 2008,

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global one financial crisis, and also

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after COVID-19, you know, the,

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there was like a problem with the fiscal policy.

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So because, you know, the, you know, they, they have to,

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vote for legislations, so that, you know,

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they can actually extend the fiscal policy

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to smooth down downturns.

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And because of these problems with the voting,

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and, you know, when will, when will it happen,

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we let be approved this kind of pro problems.

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A lot of policy institutions, including IMF

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and like similar, similar institutions as well

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as like top economists have been arguing

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that maybe we should revert to automatic stabilizers.

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So whatever, what are automatic stabilizers?

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They're automatic in the sense that, you know,

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they don't need legislation vote.

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Uh, so that, you know, they are, you know,

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when something happens in the economy,

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when the economies goes south, then, you know,

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these policies kick in.

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Well, in the case of, unemployment insurance policies,

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like let's say you are in the 2008

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and you see that unemployment increases to five to 6%, 7%,

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8%, then,

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automatically transfers increase to the unemployed people.

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So you don't need any vault.

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So it is like they are implemented in the economic system,

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economic system, so that, you know, unemployed people

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directly increase, their income.

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So they're automatic in that sense.

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And why, why are they called stab stabilizers?

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Uh, because the idea is that when these policies kick in,

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then, unemployed people will have,

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smoother income.

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So they, their income will not decline much as a result.

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They will not have to reduce their consumption much.

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Then, you know, as a society, as a,

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as an aggregate equitable, as a macro economy,

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then they will need to de, aggregate consumption

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and aggregate demand with decline less so

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that it'll be stabilizing.

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So it's automatic and stabilizers.

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So these are the mechanisms that,

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people have been thinking about.

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Uh, of course, the, there unemployment issues,

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policies also have some side effects.

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So the side effect is that, you know, people

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who are unemployed will search less,

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and as a result, they will stay

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for unemployed for a longer time.

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So this is the side effect.

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It has been studied in the economic, you know,

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economic literature and empirical and theoretically,

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and the magnitude of these side effects are not, you know,

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very well pinned down so that, you know,

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their people find some large

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effects and also some small effects.

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So you asked about the Bailey chatty formula.

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So Bailey chatty formula, but if they do is they actually

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weigh in the cost

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and benefits of this unemployment issues, benefits.

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So the benefits are, as I mentioned, like they liquid

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smooth co income, ter consumption,

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and the cost is unemployment, unemployment,

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longer unemployment.

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But we doing our paper is

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that we introduced two new mechanisms,

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which is not in the formula

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or the ones that I mentioned about you.

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The two, the two mechanisms.

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We argue that they are strong enough

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to overturn the stabilizing effects of an implementations.

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So the two, the two mechanisms are that, so when,

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the idea here is that when unemployment insurance becomes,

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more generous, we argue that it weakens the households

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and the bank balances.

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So why is that? So what happens is that, you know,

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if unemployment increase becomes more generous income,

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realistic lines, if income realistic lines, people need

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to save less in financial assets.

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So this is the first mechanism,

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but this, this was already found in the literature so that,

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you know, people save less because of the lower precautions.

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What's new? Our model, our study is that we also show

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that household borrow more.

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Uh, especially in the mortgage market, we find that,

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because of this lower income risk households,

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consumers want to own more housing,

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and they borrow more in the mortgage market,

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and they can do it because,

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there is no less income risk.

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So this is the first thing. So,

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household have less savings,

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and in particular, they have less liquid savings

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because they don't need much liquidity,

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because, you know, their income stream is, smoother.

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They don't need much liquidity.

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Instead, they want to own housing,

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and they do this by borrowing more in the mortgage market.

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The second thing is that bank balances also become weaker.

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I mean, this, this might be obvious.

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The, the, because you know, the assets, the liability

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of the households is, is the, the assets

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of the banks, right?

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So that, you know, if mortgage borrowing

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or the households increase, but also,

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mortgage assets in the bank balance is also increase.

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So now we have banks which have more mortgages,

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which we know from the 2008 crisis that might be a problem.

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And moreover, since individual income risk is lower,

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ris, their default risk is also lower, right?

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I mean, unemployed, they have zero income.

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They will probably, people will probably default,

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but example, now everyone knows this, what

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what banks do is they want you

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to put more down payment if income risk is higher.

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And the opposite side is

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that if the unemployment issues becomes more generous,

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they will not ask that much down payment.

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Okay? So right now, actually, we have an economy

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where mortgage borrowing is higher.

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At the same time down payments are also lower, so

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that each mortgage is actually, relatively riskier.

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So when a, when a bad thing happens in the economy,

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so you know, economy goes south,

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and the downturn is, you know, a sharp downturn,

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then we have households which have mortgage, which is

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and lower down payments.

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So that now the, and the banks with more mortgages

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and lower down payments riskier than the riskier mortgages.

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Now, these two effects, we argue

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that they will actually make the things worse

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and will dominate the cushioning effects

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of the unemploy issues.

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So we provide both theoretical

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and empirical evidence that,

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these mechanisms can be strong enough

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to overturn the stabilizing effects our people raise.

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You know, couple of strengths of the literature,

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but I want to only talk about, like the major three

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of the papers, three papers,

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that relates very close to ours.

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So the first paper is an econometric paper

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by Alistair McKay and Cord Race.

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Uh, so it's a 2000, I think 16 paper.

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So they build an generically model, pet Agent ally modeled

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that features, income risk, unemployment,

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insurance, unemployment.

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And they mostly focus on the two mechanisms

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that I mentioned in the paper.

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Uh, not, not our mechanisms,

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but you know, the income smoothing,

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income smoothing effects, unemployment insurance, as well

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as the unemployment effects.

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And they find that, I mean, especially

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for unemployment insurance,

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it stabilizes economic downturn.

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So there's no, the, it's kind of,

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it works like an automatic stabilizer.

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So what that model doesn't have is the, the borrowing

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and the leverage and the balance sheet effects

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that you mentioned in the paper.

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So, if for example, we, we show that, you know,

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without those mechanisms actually, our model

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and our framework also stabilizes.

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Uh, but once you take into these effects, then, this,

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the, the economies become, less stable

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with more general, more unemployment issues spans.

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There are two other papers

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that study the problem empirically so empirically,

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but there's this, and one of them is diman

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and care money paper and not publish it,

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but it is very well known paper.

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So these papers use cross cross-sectional variation across

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unemployment insurance in the United States,

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and they study whether the regions,

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which have more general unemployment insurance are,

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did better, does better in terms of economic stability,

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and they find that it is the case

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and other paper, in an Eco American economic review by,

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David Hu Sue Matsa.

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And in 2018, they look at individual level data,

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and they show that,

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if unemployment insurance is more generous,

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unemployed people default less on their mortgages,

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and they have other findings.

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But, relating to our work, that's the case.

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What we argue is that, cross-sectional identification,

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captures only some part of the effects

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of unemployment insurance policies.

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So once, for example, when once we adjust our model

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to fit their people's empirical frameworks, then we show

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that our model also captures their findings so that,

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you know, if you, for example, neglect the systemic effects

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of unemploy insurance, then we also find

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that the economy is more stable.

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However, it's kind of a,

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an incomplete picture.

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So if you neglect this, economy by effects, systemic

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by effects, or in the case of, the AR paper

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that I mentioned, you by hu they find

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that it affects the unemployed, it, it,

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it lowers the foreclosures of unemployed.

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However, you know, we show that, you know, okay,

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in our framework as well,

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unemployed people also benefit from the,

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unemployment issues perhaps.

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But when you look at the employed, which is the big majority

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of the people, then you just find the opposite effects.

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And in our case, employed people are like 95%

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of the population, and even small effects dominates

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the effects on unemployed.

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So I think, this could summarize, how our paper fits

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to the, the most relevant, literature in the

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stabilization effects of the unemployment.

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So we have two, sets of evidence.

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So first, we develop a generally covid model,

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heterogene generally covid model,

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and provide evidence from that model.

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And second, we also provide some empirical

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evidence from the United States.

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Okay? So first, let me de describe our framework.

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Uh, our framework is an heterogeneous agent,

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overlapping generation model for the household side.

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In the household side, this is overlapping generation, so

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that, you know, households, enter into the economy,

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like at the age of eight 18, they work until 65.

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Then, from 65 to 25, they are retired. Okay?

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So when they're working, they,

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they face two times two types of risk.

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The first is an income risk employee.

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People also face income risk, so that, you know,

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sometimes you earn a lot

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and sometimes you are less so that, you know,

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you don't know exactly how much you are going

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to earn even if you are employed.

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The second risk is an unemployment risk.

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Unemployment risk is, age dependent as in the data.

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So like, you know, younger people,

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face a higher risk compared to older people.

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And once they're unemployed, people can,

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can get unemployment issues.

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So this is the part where we introduce the unemploy issues,

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benefits, and how it influences income.

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Risk people,

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can save in, financial assets

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to smooth their income risk as a precaution model.

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Uh, they, they can do it,

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and second houses like consumption and housing, okay?

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So, you know, they can, they choose how much to save,

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how much to consume, and then whether they want

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to own a house or not, they can rent a house as well.

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I mean, but housing, you know, if they want

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to own housing are expensive.

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Houses are expensive. So like, you know,

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if a person doesn't have a house, if, if, if,

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if a person wants to own a house, they may want to,

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borrow via mortgages, long-term mortgages.

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So this is a one critical thing that in our model is that

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terms, the terms of mortgage contracts are indigence so

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that, you know, it is chosen by households

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and the banks with the coordination of the banks.

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So consider a household, they have an income risk,

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they have an unemployment risk,

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and unemploy unemployment issues is given.

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So they know the situation,

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and the banks also know the situation.

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So that, you know, what, what happens is that, you know,

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banks, over households, a many of contracts, let,

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let me, let me give an example.

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They say if you put 30% down payment,

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then your interest rate will be like 2%.

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If you put 20% down payment, your interest rate will be 3%,

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and if you put 10%, then interest will be 4%.

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So this kind of a, you know,

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of course in the comp computational equilibrium,

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we find we do this in a very much, finer, set

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of points when unemployment insurance increases,

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individual default risk status,

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keeping everything constantly declines so

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that the banks also know this.

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So they say that if in economies

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with more generous unemployment insurance, they say that,

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okay, households will be less likely default

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because they have an a more generous unemployment insurance.

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So what they will do is for each corresponding down payment

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requirement, they will offer a lower interest rate so

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that you know, the mortgage terms that the banks offering

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to the households will be loser, you know,

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loser in the sense that they will be easier conditions.

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So what happens then is, you know, of course

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interest rates are declining since the mortgage interest

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rates are declining, households will choose,

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lower down payment requirements and more, mortgage.

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So in equilibrium, the amount of mortgages will increase,

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and the amount of the size

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of the D payments will also lower.

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So this is actually a, a critical component of the analysis.

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So we have banks, banks are offering these mortgages.

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They also lend to firms,

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but I'm going, I'm not going to in detail, you know,

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because they're not that much interested.

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Firms are not that much interesting.

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Uh, they're important, but I mean, in terms of, the UI

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and interaction, they're not much interesting.

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So now the banks will offer losing mortgages.

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They will also lend to firms,

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and they finance these operations,

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by borrowing from investors at an extent,

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ex exogenous interest rate.

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But here we model, the banking,

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balance sheet problems according to G

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and American economic paper.

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So they know banks also can default,

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but now, you know, the investors know that,

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okay, banks can default.

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Then they also limit their lending to banks.

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So that, you know, there is bank lending

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as a result is a kind of a,

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is dependent on the bank network.

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This is kind of a, a very common way

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of modeling bank balance sheet problems.

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So now we have households,

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because of, this mortgage decisions,

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they have a balance sheet.

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And because of this, you know,

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UI affecting their mortgage terms

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and conditions, they have a balance sheet.

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And then we have banks holding

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these mortgages in their balance sheets.

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This is, the modeling environment,

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but net also say a couple

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of offers about the empirical setup,

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because we also, I think, provide important evidence from,

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the writing, the, the data from the United States.

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Uh, the advantage of US data is that,

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each United States state, decides on its,

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the generosity of the unemployment issues benefits.

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So as a result, we have a chance to analyze

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how UI affects, mortgage borrowing.

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Uh, then we also have data on,

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very county level house price data,

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loan data, the loaning data.

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And we can also analyze how much, these variables are,

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stable, in response to shocks to interest rate, so

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that, you know, we have a chance to, analyze

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how our results in the model, compare to results,

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in the data I would like to go,

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I will submit the findings in the model, then I will,

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switch to the, you know, what we find in the data.

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So in the model first what we do is, you know,

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we calibrate this, this model to the US data, you know, how,

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how the balance sheets look like in the data.

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So like, you know, we compare our models,

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steady state results, with the US data, like how

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of balance sheet, how much, how home ownership rate,

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those kind of variables.

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We also match the data bank balance sheet data with the,

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US bank balance sheets data.

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So we, we do this

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and to study the steady state effects,

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what we do is we solve the model,

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across different,

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unemployment insurance levels in the steady state so that,

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you know, we compare, the steady state

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of the economies from 20% unemployment insurance,

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generosity to 60%, unemployment insurance generosity,

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and 60% meaning that if a person gets unemployed, he

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or she will get, 60% of previous income,

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in that economy.

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Uh, and if it is 20%, he will,

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she will get 20% his past income, in the steady state so

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that, you know, unemployment issues become, various.

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And we show that first, mortgage borrowing increases.

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Like, let me look at the numbers.

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So for example, in the 20% economy,

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the mortgage borrowing is like 76% of GDP.

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In the 60% economy, it is like 83% loan,

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down payment requirements, amount

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C down payment payments decline from 10.4% to 8.4%,

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and the liquid asset savings decline by 3.2%.

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So as UI becomes more generous,

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mortgage borrowing increases down payment declines,

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and the financial assets also in, declines.

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So these are the, balance sheet mechanisms

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that, we mentioned.

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These are the steady state effects.

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What we want to do is,

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and of course it's not our main question,

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these are the mechanisms that we are thinking about.

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But to study whether unemployment insurance, increases,

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stability or decreases stability, we introduce to,

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a boom bust scenario in our model.

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So first we generate a boom,

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then we generate a bust in the economy.

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And the shock that generates, the boom

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and the bust is first interest rates decline, from,

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let's say 96 to 2000 interest rates decline.

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Uh, like the one in the data.

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Then, you know, people expected it

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was, it'll stay like that.

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But in 2008, suddenly interest rate goes back increases.

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And at the same time, we also introduced like an

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unemployment shock to make, to make our wound

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bust scenario similar to the data.

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So what we find is that unemployment in,

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the boas center, boomba cycle is a larger in the economies

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with higher unemployment insurance economi.

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So, and now I'm, I will talk, the mechanisms behind it.

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So when, think about, now, let's think,

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let's focus first on the household scale.

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So suppose, there's a shock in all these economies

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that house prices and income declines by the same amount.

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Now, in the economies

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with more generous unemployment insurance,

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people are more indebted.

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Now, house prices decline

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and they have more leverage given the same house price

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decline, and same income decline.

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Since h households have more leverage,

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they have a more incentive

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to default on their mortgages, okay?

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Same amount of decline in house prices,

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same amount of decline in inc.

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In, in incre, income in across UIs

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will push more households to default

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in more generous U economies because they are more inducted.

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So this is the first thing.

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Now, let's think about the bank down sheet.

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Remember, during the bus period,

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what generates a decline in,

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the bust is increasing interest rates.

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So now in the higher, more generous UI economies,

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banks have more mortgages in their balance sheets.

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Mortgages are long-term assets.

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So when, when interest rates increase,

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and they are, you know, we model, the mortgages,

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fixed rate mortgages, which

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is the case in the United States.

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So when, when interest rate increases, the value

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of the mortgages decline,

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and in more UI economies, there are more mortgages.

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So that, you know, increasing interest rates lower the

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bank balance sheets more in more UI economies

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because they have more mortgages.

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This is the first thing. The second thing is from,

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it's coming from the household balance sheet channel.

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Since house prices decline, it generates more

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increase in foreclosures, okay?

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So foreclosures, a high foreclosure

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in more generous u economies.

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And because of this valuation effects,

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because of the higher interest rates, now banks have

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to reduce their credit more in more generous U icons,

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and we show that these are strong enough to,

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to overturn the stabilizing effects.

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The second thing that the most, the other important thing is

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that we find that unemployment insurance benefits

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helped unemployed.

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So if you, for example, if you have a heterogene surgeon

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model, if you compare how unemployed people do

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in different UI economies

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and implementations, economies, unemployed people, the,

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the ratio of, for the, the ra, the rising foreclosures,

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in among unemployed in higher

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unemployment insurance economies is lower,

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compared to the lower.

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So this is the one that, you know,

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the empirical literature find so far, so that, you know,

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among unemployed, we see that actually yes,

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unemployment insurance effect, helps them.

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But to remember, unemployed people are only like six, seven,

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10% at the worst case scenario.

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Now, if you look at the employed people,

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the thing just reverse, remember.

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So employee people do not get the unemployment Ben benefits,

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and they don't benefit from more generous ui.

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However, ex example, they,

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they are affected by these policies

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because they know that if they are employ unemployed,

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they will get the benefits so that, you know,

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the balances are weaker

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because they, they expected income risk is lower.

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Now, they, they don't get the benefits.

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However, they suffer from their balance sheet effects

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and the results, the consumption declines more

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and foreclosures increases more.

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Uh, one thing that we do is actually, we want

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to, we want to analyze, which one,

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which balances are important, how much, okay, so bank,

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is it the bank balance sheets

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or the household balance sheets?

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So what we can easily do is, which is,

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relatively straightforward, is,

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we can close the bank balance sheet channel

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and see how much of the results

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that we have are coming from the banks,

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and how much is the, are the effects are coming from the,

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households.

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Once we close the bank balance channel, what we find is

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that consumptions become, consumption becomes more stable.

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So a higher in, consumption is more,

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becomes more stable in more generous UI economies

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and IOUs economies.

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However, housing and the mortgages

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and foreclosures becomes still stays, unstable.

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Okay? So that, you know, households, balance sheets, we,

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we actually qu try to quantify

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and we find it like they're almost equally important.

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And the household balance sheets are important more in long

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term than balance sheets are more

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important in the short term.

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This is also important in the sense that, you know,

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if you look at the cross-sectional analysis,

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where they analyzed how UI effects,

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regional stability, those papers, those that kind

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of research empirical setup cannot, identify the effects

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of, UI on the banking sector.

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Because, you know, when banking sector goes bad,

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it's an economy wide thing.

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It's not regional. So, they have

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to just look at the regional effects in the cross-section

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analysis by neglecting the bank's balance sheets.

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And what we find is that actually confirming their view,

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so that, you know, we say that, okay,

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if you close the bank balance channel,

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then we have some stability in consumption,

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however, it'll be actually missing an important component.

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Uh, is a systemic part coming from the bank balance sheets.

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Lemme go to the setup.

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So what we do here is that, we use Honda data.

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Uh, Honda data is a very detailed, mortgage level data,

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and we use, state level,

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ui, unemployment insurance, generosities,

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and first we show that in the data as well.

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Once unemployment insurance becomes more generous,

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long income ratio increases.

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So this is relatively a new finding.

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Uh, i, I haven't seen that much in the literature.

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So that this is, remember our main story is

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that unemployment insurances, insurance be,

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vehicles, balance sheets and household balance sheets,

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and yet we didn't show much empirical, evidence now,

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with the hundred data, but we show is

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that this is indeed the case in the data.

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And quantitatively our estimates are very similar to the,

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what we find in the model.

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This is the first empirical thing,

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but this is yet a correlation.

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Uh, and this has a, it is not like a causal relationship

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that people, will look for for causation.

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What we do is, there is a surprise, shortening in,

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UI generous in Missouri.

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So there was kind of a, people, other papers use this

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as a kind of an exogenous shock,

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and we show that actually compared to similar states,

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once a UI becomes, less generous in Missouri,

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long income ratios, become, smaller so

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that it's like a more causal, identification.

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And remember in the model, which, which we argued is that,

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even after closing the bank balance channel,

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our results for housing

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and the mortgages, stay, with even

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with the household balances.

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So for that, what we do is we, form,

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we generate the data, at the county level,

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house prices and mortgage credit, data.

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And we want to analyze how, mortgage credit

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and house prices react to long-term interest rates.

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So for the, for the housing market,

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this is the most important variable that we know.

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So what we do is that we show is that,

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once in long-term interest rate changes, economies

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with more generous and implement insurance benefits,

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reacts more, to, changes in interest rates.

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So house prices decline more

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and mortgage crisis decline more than interest rates,

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increases more in more generous U economies.

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So this is, kind of, we find it interesting.

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The result is that, and because UI doesn't really stabilize

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an implement issue, when I say ui, it's implement insurance,

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it doesn't stabilize, economic downturn

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or, how did the housing market suppose you are a

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policymaker, and that something like a covid,

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or 2008 crisis happens.

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So now would you just,

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feel happy that,

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you have a good mplementation benefits and

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Just let the mplementation benefits do the job

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Our finding says you shouldn't.

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Okay? So that, you know, still there is a big room

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for discretionary fiscal policy.

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We want to say that this is the first thing.

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And the second thing is that maybe you know how to avoid,

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how can we avoid this kind of step stabilizing effects?

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Because we are not saying against we,

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we are not against unemploy issues, benefits, let me say

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that, because we are aware

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that it has a huge social benefits to the society.

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So we don't want to say that or you have to just cancel it.

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No, we don't say that.

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But what we say is that maybe, we might,

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or the policy makers might, collaborate these policies,

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in, with macro prudential policies so that,

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you know, maybe, they should actually,

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put some like extra long to value restrictions,

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minimum down payment requirements such

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and such so that these side effects can be, overcome.

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The finally, I mean, we mostly focus on unemploy issues,

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benefits, however, these findings can go, up

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to other policies as well, like, health insurance,

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pro, you know, progressive income taxation.

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You can, think all social policies

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that might ensure households to, against, idiosyncratic

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or macroeconomic shocks.

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Uh, so that, you know, that those kind

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of policies might also affect, similar effects similar

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to the UI and implementations policies.

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So that, I mean, for future work, you asked,

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maybe we can, we, we are planning to,

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explore those policies as well.

Unemployment Insurance and Economic Stability Analysis

00:00:00 - We wanted to analyze, whether unemploy insurance, and maybe similar policies, stabilize economic downturn. So we were interested this topic because especially after like 2009, CRI eight crisis in 2008, global one financial crisis, and also after COVID-19, you know, the, there was like a problem with the fiscal policy. So because, you know, the, you know, they, they have to, vote for legislations, so that, you know, they can actually extend the fiscal policy to smooth down downturns.
00:00:33 - and, you know, when will, when will it happen, we let be approved this kind of pro problems. A lot of policy institutions, including IMF and like similar, similar institutions as well as like top economists have been arguing that maybe we should revert to automatic stabilizers. So whatever, what are automatic stabilizers? They're automatic in the sense that, you know, they don't need legislation vote. so that, you know, they are, you know, when something happens in the economy, when the economies goes south, then, you know,
00:01:04 - Well, in the case of, unemployment insurance policies, like let's say you are in the 2008 and you see that unemployment increases to five to 6%, 7%, 8%, then, automatically transfers increase to the unemployed people. So you don't need any vault. So it is like they are implemented in the economic system, economic system, so that, you know, unemployed people directly increase, their income. So they're automatic in that sense. And why, why are they called stab stabilizers?
00:01:37 - then, unemployed people will have, smoother income. So they, their income will not decline much as a result. They will not have to reduce their consumption much. Then, you know, as a society, as a, as an aggregate equitable, as a macro economy, then they will need to de, aggregate consumption and aggregate demand with decline less so that it'll be stabilizing. So it's automatic and stabilizers. So these are the mechanisms that,
00:02:07 - of course, the, there unemployment issues, policies also have some side effects. So the side effect is that, you know, people who are unemployed will search less, and as a result, they will stay for unemployed for a longer time. So this is the side effect. It has been studied in the economic, you know, economic literature and empirical and theoretically, and the magnitude of these side effects are not, you know, very well pinned down so that, you know, their people find some large effects and also some small effects.
00:02:38 - So Bailey chatty formula, but if they do is they actually weigh in the cost and benefits of this unemployment issues, benefits. So the benefits are, as I mentioned, like they liquid smooth co income, ter consumption, and the cost is unemployment, unemployment, longer unemployment. But we doing our paper is that we introduced two new mechanisms, which is not in the formula or the ones that I mentioned about you.

Impact of Generous Unemployment Insurance on Stability

00:03:07 - We argue that they are strong enough to overturn the stabilizing effects of an implementations. So the two, the two mechanisms are that, so when, the idea here is that when unemployment insurance becomes, more generous, we argue that it weakens the households and the bank balances. So why is that? So what happens is that, you know, if unemployment increase becomes more generous income, realistic lines, if income realistic lines, people need to save less in financial assets.
00:03:37 - but this, this was already found in the literature so that, you know, people save less because of the lower precautions. What's new? Our model, our study is that we also show that household borrow more. especially in the mortgage market, we find that, because of this lower income risk households, consumers want to own more housing, and they borrow more in the mortgage market, and they can do it because, there is no less income risk.
00:04:09 - household have less savings, and in particular, they have less liquid savings because they don't need much liquidity, because, you know, their income stream is, smoother. They don't need much liquidity. Instead, they want to own housing, and they do this by borrowing more in the mortgage market. The second thing is that bank balances also become weaker. I mean, this, this might be obvious. The, the, because you know, the assets, the liability of the households is, is the, the assets
00:04:40 - So that, you know, if mortgage borrowing or the households increase, but also, mortgage assets in the bank balance is also increase. So now we have banks which have more mortgages, which we know from the 2008 crisis that might be a problem. And moreover, since individual income risk is lower, ris, their default risk is also lower, right? I mean, unemployed, they have zero income. They will probably, people will probably default, but example, now everyone knows this, what
00:05:13 - to put more down payment if income risk is higher. And the opposite side is that if the unemployment issues becomes more generous, they will not ask that much down payment. Okay? So right now, actually, we have an economy where mortgage borrowing is higher. At the same time down payments are also lower, so that each mortgage is actually, relatively riskier. So when a, when a bad thing happens in the economy, so you know, economy goes south, and the downturn is, you know, a sharp downturn,
00:05:46 - and lower down payments. So that now the, and the banks with more mortgages and lower down payments riskier than the riskier mortgages. Now, these two effects, we argue that they will actually make the things worse and will dominate the cushioning effects of the unemploy issues. So we provide both theoretical and empirical evidence that, these mechanisms can be strong enough to overturn the stabilizing effects our people raise. You know, couple of strengths of the literature, but I want to only talk about, like the major three

Evaluating Unemployment Insurance's Economic Impact

00:06:18 - that relates very close to ours. So the first paper is an econometric paper by Alistair McKay and Cord Race. so it's a 2000, I think 16 paper. So they build an generically model, pet Agent ally modeled that features, income risk, unemployment, insurance, unemployment. And they mostly focus on the two mechanisms that I mentioned in the paper. not, not our mechanisms, but you know, the income smoothing,
00:06:49 - as the unemployment effects. And they find that, I mean, especially for unemployment insurance, it stabilizes economic downturn. So there's no, the, it's kind of, it works like an automatic stabilizer. So what that model doesn't have is the, the borrowing and the leverage and the balance sheet effects that you mentioned in the paper. So, if for example, we, we show that, you know, without those mechanisms actually, our model and our framework also stabilizes.
00:07:22 - the, the economies become, less stable with more general, more unemployment issues spans. There are two other papers that study the problem empirically so empirically, but there's this, and one of them is diman and care money paper and not publish it, but it is very well known paper. So these papers use cross cross-sectional variation across unemployment insurance in the United States, and they study whether the regions, which have more general unemployment insurance are,
00:07:53 - and they find that it is the case and other paper, in an Eco American economic review by, David Hu Sue Matsa. And in 2018, they look at individual level data, and they show that, if unemployment insurance is more generous, unemployed people default less on their mortgages, and they have other findings. But, relating to our work, that's the case. What we argue is that, cross-sectional identification,
00:08:23 - of unemployment insurance policies. So once, for example, when once we adjust our model to fit their people's empirical frameworks, then we show that our model also captures their findings so that, you know, if you, for example, neglect the systemic effects of unemploy insurance, then we also find that the economy is more stable. However, it's kind of a, an incomplete picture. So if you neglect this, economy by effects, systemic by effects, or in the case of, the AR paper
00:08:57 - that it affects the unemployed, it, it, it lowers the foreclosures of unemployed. However, you know, we show that, you know, okay, in our framework as well, unemployed people also benefit from the, unemployment issues perhaps. But when you look at the employed, which is the big majority of the people, then you just find the opposite effects. And in our case, employed people are like 95% of the population, and even small effects dominates the effects on unemployed. So I think, this could summarize, how our paper fits

Stabilization Effects of Unemployment Insurance Benefits

00:09:30 - stabilization effects of the unemployment. So we have two, sets of evidence. So first, we develop a generally covid model, heterogene generally covid model, and provide evidence from that model. And second, we also provide some empirical evidence from the United States. Okay? So first, let me de describe our framework. our framework is an heterogeneous agent, overlapping generation model for the household side.
00:10:00 - that, you know, households, enter into the economy, like at the age of eight 18, they work until 65. Then, from 65 to 25, they are retired. Okay? So when they're working, they, they face two times two types of risk. The first is an income risk employee. People also face income risk, so that, you know, sometimes you earn a lot and sometimes you are less so that, you know, you don't know exactly how much you are going to earn even if you are employed.
00:10:33 - Unemployment risk is, age dependent as in the data. So like, you know, younger people, face a higher risk compared to older people. And once they're unemployed, people can, can get unemployment issues. So this is the part where we introduce the unemploy issues, benefits, and how it influences income. Risk people, can save in, financial assets to smooth their income risk as a precaution model.
00:11:05 - and second houses like consumption and housing, okay? So, you know, they can, they choose how much to save, how much to consume, and then whether they want to own a house or not, they can rent a house as well. I mean, but housing, you know, if they want to own housing are expensive. Houses are expensive. So like, you know, if a person doesn't have a house, if, if, if, if a person wants to own a house, they may want to, borrow via mortgages, long-term mortgages. So this is a one critical thing that in our model is that
00:11:39 - that, you know, it is chosen by households and the banks with the coordination of the banks. So consider a household, they have an income risk, they have an unemployment risk, and unemploy unemployment issues is given. So they know the situation, and the banks also know the situation. So that, you know, what, what happens is that, you know, banks, over households, a many of contracts, let, let me, let me give an example. They say if you put 30% down payment, then your interest rate will be like 2%.
00:12:12 - and if you put 10%, then interest will be 4%. So this kind of a, you know, of course in the comp computational equilibrium, we find we do this in a very much, finer, set of points when unemployment insurance increases, individual default risk status, keeping everything constantly declines so that the banks also know this. So they say that if in economies with more generous unemployment insurance, they say that, okay, households will be less likely default

Impact of UI on Mortgage Borrowing Practices

00:12:43 - So what they will do is for each corresponding down payment requirement, they will offer a lower interest rate so that you know, the mortgage terms that the banks offering to the households will be loser, you know, loser in the sense that they will be easier conditions. So what happens then is, you know, of course interest rates are declining since the mortgage interest rates are declining, households will choose, lower down payment requirements and more, mortgage. So in equilibrium, the amount of mortgages will increase,
00:13:14 - of the D payments will also lower. So this is actually a, a critical component of the analysis. So we have banks, banks are offering these mortgages. They also lend to firms, but I'm going, I'm not going to in detail, you know, because they're not that much interested. Firms are not that much interesting. they're important, but I mean, in terms of, the UI and interaction, they're not much interesting. So now the banks will offer losing mortgages. They will also lend to firms, and they finance these operations,
00:13:46 - ex exogenous interest rate. But here we model, the banking, balance sheet problems according to G and American economic paper. So they know banks also can default, but now, you know, the investors know that, okay, banks can default. Then they also limit their lending to banks. So that, you know, there is bank lending as a result is a kind of a, is dependent on the bank network. This is kind of a, a very common way of modeling bank balance sheet problems.
00:14:18 - because of, this mortgage decisions, they have a balance sheet. And because of this, you know, UI affecting their mortgage terms and conditions, they have a balance sheet. And then we have banks holding these mortgages in their balance sheets. This is, the modeling environment, but net also say a couple of offers about the empirical setup, because we also, I think, provide important evidence from, the writing, the, the data from the United States. the advantage of US data is that, each United States state, decides on its,
00:14:52 - So as a result, we have a chance to analyze how UI affects, mortgage borrowing. then we also have data on, very county level house price data, loan data, the loaning data. And we can also analyze how much, these variables are, stable, in response to shocks to interest rate, so that, you know, we have a chance to, analyze how our results in the model, compare to results,
00:15:24 - I will submit the findings in the model, then I will, switch to the, you know, what we find in the data. So in the model first what we do is, you know, we calibrate this, this model to the US data, you know, how, how the balance sheets look like in the data. So like, you know, we compare our models, steady state results, with the US data, like how of balance sheet, how much, how home ownership rate, those kind of variables. We also match the data bank balance sheet data with the,

Impact of Unemployment Insurance on Economic Stability

00:15:55 - So we, we do this and to study the steady state effects, what we do is we solve the model, across different, unemployment insurance levels in the steady state so that, you know, we compare, the steady state of the economies from 20% unemployment insurance, generosity to 60%, unemployment insurance generosity, and 60% meaning that if a person gets unemployed, he or she will get, 60% of previous income,
00:16:27 - and if it is 20%, he will, she will get 20% his past income, in the steady state so that, you know, unemployment issues become, various. And we show that first, mortgage borrowing increases. Like, let me look at the numbers. So for example, in the 20% economy, the mortgage borrowing is like 76% of GDP. In the 60% economy, it is like 83% loan, down payment requirements, amount C down payment payments decline from 10.4% to 8.4%,
00:17:03 - So as UI becomes more generous, mortgage borrowing increases down payment declines, and the financial assets also in, declines. So these are the, balance sheet mechanisms that, we mentioned. These are the steady state effects. What we want to do is, and of course it's not our main question, these are the mechanisms that we are thinking about. But to study whether unemployment insurance, increases, stability or decreases stability, we introduce to,
00:17:34 - So first we generate a boom, then we generate a bust in the economy. And the shock that generates, the boom and the bust is first interest rates decline, from, let's say 96 to 2000 interest rates decline. like the one in the data. Then, you know, people expected it was, it'll stay like that. But in 2008, suddenly interest rate goes back increases. And at the same time, we also introduced like an
00:18:05 - bust scenario similar to the data. So what we find is that unemployment in, the boas center, boomba cycle is a larger in the economies with higher unemployment insurance economi. So, and now I'm, I will talk, the mechanisms behind it. So when, think about, now, let's think, let's focus first on the household scale. So suppose, there's a shock in all these economies that house prices and income declines by the same amount.
00:18:37 - with more generous unemployment insurance, people are more indebted. Now, house prices decline and they have more leverage given the same house price decline, and same income decline. Since h households have more leverage, they have a more incentive to default on their mortgages, okay? Same amount of decline in house prices, same amount of decline in inc. In, in incre, income in across UIs will push more households to default

Impact of Unemployment Insurance on Bank Stability

00:19:09 - So this is the first thing. Now, let's think about the bank down sheet. Remember, during the bus period, what generates a decline in, the bust is increasing interest rates. So now in the higher, more generous UI economies, banks have more mortgages in their balance sheets. Mortgages are long-term assets. So when, when interest rates increase, and they are, you know, we model, the mortgages, fixed rate mortgages, which is the case in the United States.
00:19:40 - of the mortgages decline, and in more UI economies, there are more mortgages. So that, you know, increasing interest rates lower the bank balance sheets more in more UI economies because they have more mortgages. This is the first thing. The second thing is from, it's coming from the household balance sheet channel. Since house prices decline, it generates more increase in foreclosures, okay? So foreclosures, a high foreclosure
00:20:11 - And because of this valuation effects, because of the higher interest rates, now banks have to reduce their credit more in more generous U icons, and we show that these are strong enough to, to overturn the stabilizing effects. The second thing that the most, the other important thing is that we find that unemployment insurance benefits helped unemployed. So if you, for example, if you have a heterogene surgeon model, if you compare how unemployed people do
00:20:42 - and implementations, economies, unemployed people, the, the ratio of, for the, the ra, the rising foreclosures, in among unemployed in higher unemployment insurance economies is lower, compared to the lower. So this is the one that, you know, the empirical literature find so far, so that, you know, among unemployed, we see that actually yes, unemployment insurance effect, helps them. But to remember, unemployed people are only like six, seven,
00:21:15 - Now, if you look at the employed people, the thing just reverse, remember. So employee people do not get the unemployment Ben benefits, and they don't benefit from more generous ui. However, ex example, they, they are affected by these policies because they know that if they are employ unemployed, they will get the benefits so that, you know, the balances are weaker because they, they expected income risk is lower. Now, they, they don't get the benefits.
00:21:46 - and the results, the consumption declines more and foreclosures increases more. one thing that we do is actually, we want to, we want to analyze, which one, which balances are important, how much, okay, so bank, is it the bank balance sheets or the household balance sheets? So what we can easily do is, which is, relatively straightforward, is, we can close the bank balance sheet channel and see how much of the results

Impact of Unemployment Insurance on Stability

00:22:15 - and how much is the, are the effects are coming from the, households. Once we close the bank balance channel, what we find is that consumptions become, consumption becomes more stable. So a higher in, consumption is more, becomes more stable in more generous UI economies and IOUs economies. However, housing and the mortgages and foreclosures becomes still stays, unstable.
00:22:48 - we actually qu try to quantify and we find it like they're almost equally important. And the household balance sheets are important more in long term than balance sheets are more important in the short term. This is also important in the sense that, you know, if you look at the cross-sectional analysis, where they analyzed how UI effects, regional stability, those papers, those that kind of research empirical setup cannot, identify the effects
00:23:18 - Because, you know, when banking sector goes bad, it's an economy wide thing. It's not regional. So, they have to just look at the regional effects in the cross-section analysis by neglecting the bank's balance sheets. And what we find is that actually confirming their view, so that, you know, we say that, okay, if you close the bank balance channel, then we have some stability in consumption, however, it'll be actually missing an important component. is a systemic part coming from the bank balance sheets.
00:23:52 - So what we do here is that, we use Honda data. Honda data is a very detailed, mortgage level data, and we use, state level, ui, unemployment insurance, generosities, and first we show that in the data as well. Once unemployment insurance becomes more generous, long income ratio increases. So this is relatively a new finding.
00:24:21 - So that this is, remember our main story is that unemployment insurances, insurance be, vehicles, balance sheets and household balance sheets, and yet we didn't show much empirical, evidence now, with the hundred data, but we show is that this is indeed the case in the data. And quantitatively our estimates are very similar to the, what we find in the model. This is the first empirical thing, but this is yet a correlation. and this has a, it is not like a causal relationship that people, will look for for causation.
00:24:56 - UI generous in Missouri. So there was kind of a, people, other papers use this as a kind of an exogenous shock, and we show that actually compared to similar states, once a UI becomes, less generous in Missouri, long income ratios, become, smaller so that it's like a more causal, identification. And remember in the model, which, which we argued is that, even after closing the bank balance channel,

Impact of Insurance Benefits on Housing Market

00:25:25 - and the mortgages, stay, with even with the household balances. So for that, what we do is we, form, we generate the data, at the county level, house prices and mortgage credit, data. And we want to analyze how, mortgage credit and house prices react to long-term interest rates. So for the, for the housing market, this is the most important variable that we know. So what we do is that we show is that,
00:25:58 - with more generous and implement insurance benefits, reacts more, to, changes in interest rates. So house prices decline more and mortgage crisis decline more than interest rates, increases more in more generous U economies. So this is, kind of, we find it interesting. The result is that, and because UI doesn't really stabilize an implement issue, when I say ui, it's implement insurance, it doesn't stabilize, economic downturn or, how did the housing market suppose you are a
00:26:30 - or 2008 crisis happens. So now would you just, feel happy that, you have a good mplementation benefits and Just let the mplementation benefits do the job Our finding says you shouldn't. Okay? So that, you know, still there is a big room for discretionary fiscal policy. We want to say that this is the first thing. And the second thing is that maybe you know how to avoid,
00:27:00 - Because we are not saying against we, we are not against unemploy issues, benefits, let me say that, because we are aware that it has a huge social benefits to the society. So we don't want to say that or you have to just cancel it. No, we don't say that. But what we say is that maybe, we might, or the policy makers might, collaborate these policies, in, with macro prudential policies so that, you know, maybe, they should actually,
00:27:30 - minimum down payment requirements such and such so that these side effects can be, overcome. The finally, I mean, we mostly focus on unemploy issues, benefits, however, these findings can go, up to other policies as well, like, health insurance, pro, you know, progressive income taxation. You can, think all social policies that might ensure households to, against, idiosyncratic
00:28:13 - so that, you know, that those kind of policies might also affect, similar effects similar to the UI and implementations policies. So that, I mean, for future work, you asked, maybe we can, we, we are planning to, explore those policies as well.

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