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We examine the effect of the Great Recession of 2007-2009 on the mental health of older adults, using longitudinal Health and Retirement Study data linked to area-level data on house prices. We use a variety of measures to capture mental health and rely on the very large cross-sectional...
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housing supply and the income elasticity of prices, as well as bubble size and duration. The long-term elasticity of house … prices with respect to aggregate personal income averages 0.81, but varies considerably across metropolitan areas. The long …-term income elasticity generally is greater in the more supply-inelastic metropolitan areas, and we show that bubble size and …
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As it has proved difficult to explain the recent US house price boom on the basis of fundamentals, many observers have emphasised the role of speculation. This kind of argument is, however, indirect, as speculation is treated as a deviation from a benchmark. Our paper identifies house price...
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We infer the role of price expectations in forming the U.S. housing boom in the early-2000s from examining housing inventories. We use a reduced form model to show that agents invest in vacant homes when they anticipate prices will increase. Empirically, vacancy can discriminate between price...
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past trends) and/or financial innovation can be seen as a cause for housing price bubbles in industrialized countries. From … emergence or absence of bubbles, yet these regulations might not be appropriately covered by standard quantitative indicators … Hauspreisentwicklung in den USA, Österreich und Großbritannien präsentiert, da diese Länder Fälle repräsentieren, in denen es a) eine …
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