deleverage

verb

deleverage

verb

Etymology From de- + leverage.

1

Business, Economics, Finance, Sciences To reduce debt by rapidly selling assets.

  • Because the country is exposed to large interest rate shocks, this triggers a strong precautionary-saving response: households deleverage fast and massively.2026, Hausmann-Guil, Guillermo, “Approximating around the Stochastic Steady State Matters: Rethinking Uncertainty Shocks in Small Open Economies”, in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, →DOI:

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