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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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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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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
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Simulating the future of the Swedish baby-boom generations
Klevmarken, N. Anders; Bolin, Kristian; Eklöf, Matias; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007
For the purpose of studying the consequences of the ageing of the Swedish population a group of scientists have enlarged the microsimulation model SESIM - originally developed at the Swedish Ministry of Finance - with modules that simulate health status, take up of sickness benefits, retirement,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771040
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The Dynamics of Housing Allowance Claims in Sweden: A discrete-time hazard analysis
Chen, Jie - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2006
This paper analyses the dynamics of the duration of housing allowance claims in Sweden during the period 1991 to 2002 …. The central concern in this paper is whether the Swedish housing allowance system creates dependence on welfare. Using … arising from the duration of housing allowance claims. This finding is consistent across different model specifications and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644556