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Moral and Social Constraints to Strategic Default on Mortgages

Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We use survey data to study American households’ propensity to default when the value of their mortgage exceeds the … value of their house even if they can afford to pay their mortgage (strategic default). We find that 26% of the existing … the house. Yet, 17% of households would default, even if they can afford to pay their mortgage, when the equity shortfall …

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Credit Standards and Segregation

Ouazad, Amine; Rancière, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

How do credit standards on the mortgage market affect neighbourhood choice and the resulting level of urban segregation …-2006 mortgage credit boom on the level of school segregation. Census tract racial composition is strongly correlated with the racial … composition of the 10 closest schools in the cross section. Matching a national data set of mortgage originations with annual …

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The Harrod-Balassa-Samuelson Hypothesis: Real Exchange Rates and their Long-Run Equilibrium

Chong, Yanping; Jordà, Òscar; Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Frictionless, perfectly competitive traded-goods markets justify thinking of purchasing power parity (PPP) as the main driver of exchange rates in the long-run. But differences in the traded/non-traded sectors of economies tend to be persistent and affect movements in local price levels in ways...

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Forecasting with Factor-augmented Error Correction Models

Banerjee, Anindya; Marcellino, Massimiliano; Masten, Igor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

-correction, cointegration and dynamic factor models, and has several conceptual advantages over standard ECM and FAVAR models. In particular, it …

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Are Differences in Firm Size Transitory or Permanent?

Geroski, Paul A; Samiei, Hossein; Urga, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

Cross-section or short-panel econometric techniques typically used to examine Gibrat’s Law of Proportionate Effect suggest that some degree of mean reversion exists, but may exaggerate the apparent randomness of corporate growth. We argue that a more natural way to explore the long-run...

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Factor-augmented Error Correction Models

Banerjee, Anindya; Marcellino, Massimiliano - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper brings together several important strands of the econometrics literature: error-correction, cointegration … the standard ECM, the FECM protects, at least in part, from omitted variable bias and the dependence of cointegration … cointegration prevent the errors from being non-invertible moving average processes. In addition, the FECM is a natural …

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Efficiency in the Peseta Forward Exchange Rate Market

Ayuso, Juan; Dolado, Juan J.; Sosvilla-Rivero, Simón - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

This paper applies recent cointegration techniques to analyse whether the forward market for the peseta/US dollar is …

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Expected Returns and Expected Dividend Growth

Lettau, Martin; Ludvigson, Sydney - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We develop a consumption-based present value relation that is a function of future dividend growth. Using data on aggregate consumption and measures of the dividend payments from aggregate wealth, we show that changing forecasts of dividend growth make an important contribution to fluctuations...

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Unemployment, Real Wages and Union Membership

Schmidt, Christoph M; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

This paper investigates economic determinants and effects of aggregate union membership in the Federal Republic of Germany. We establish that in the long run, high union membership levels coincide not only with a large labour force, but also with a high level of real wages, a small dispersion of...

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Investigating Private and Public Savings-Investment Gaps in EC Countries

Ballabriga, Fernando Carlos; Dolado, Juan J.; Viñals, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991

This paper uses cointegration techniques to assess the extent to which the behaviour of private- and public …

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