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House Price Dynamics: An International Empirical Perspective.
Englund, P.; Ioannides, Y.M. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1996
The paper compares the dynamics of housing prices in fifteen OECD countries. The data reveal a remarkable degree of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005779775
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Residential Mobility of the European Elderly
Angelini, Viola; Laferrère, Anne - CESifo - 2010
With the ageing of the European population, the housing choices of the elderly will have consequences on the whole … housing market. In this paper we use data from the first two waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833901
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Capital Gains Taxation and Residential Mobility in the Swedish Housing Market.
Lundborg, P.; Skedinger, P. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669577
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Do households use home-ownership to insure themselves? Evidence across U.S. cities
Amior, Michael; Halket, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Are households more likely to be homeowners when “housing risk” is higher? We show that home-ownership rates and loan … inference is confounded by house price levels, which are systematically correlated with housing risk in an intuitive way: in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126690
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Who is at the top? Wealth mobility over the life cycle
Hochguertel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
Who is wealthy? This paper presents empirical estimates of household movements into and out of the top percents of the wealth distribution over individual life cycles. There are life-cycle motives and precautionary motives for wealth accumulation. The opportunities to accumulate wealth create...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416200
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Who is at the top? Wealth mobility over the life cycle
Hochguertel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
Who is wealthy? This paper presents empirical estimates of household movements into and out of the top percents of the wealth distribution over individual life cycles. There are life-cycle motives and precautionary motives for wealth accumulation. The opportunities to accumulate wealth create...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699698
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Credit card debt and default over the life-cycle
Lopes, Paula - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
This paper solves an empirically parameterised model of life-cycle consumption which extends the precautionary savings models of Carroll (1997), and Deaton (1991), to allow for uncollaterized borrowing and default. In case households choose to default: (i) their access to credit markets is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071178
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Homeownership and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Mortgage Debt and Commitment
Bracke, Philippe; Hilber, Christian; Silva, Olmo - CESifo - 2014
housing tenure where homeowners commit to mortgage payments. Our model predicts that, as long as mortgage rates exceed the … income volatility is higher. Our model further predicts that the relation between housing wealth and entrepreneurship is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948829
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Homeownerhip and entrepreneurship
Bracke, Philippe; Hilber, Christian; Silva, Olmo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
after entering homeownership. The negative link can be rationalized by portfolio considerations: leveraged housing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126138
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The mortgage interest deduction and its impact on homeownership decisions
Hilber, Christian A. L.; Turner, Tracy M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
. We find that the MID only boosts homeownership attainment of higher income households in less tightly regulated housing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884709