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Presentation to the Fourth Annual Haas Gala, San Francisco, CA, October 21, 2005
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Presentation to the Monetary Policy Forum, New York, New York, February 24, 2012
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Housing is an important component of the consumption basket. Since both rental prices and goods prices are sticky, the … inflation proportional to the housing expenditure share. In a two-sector DSGE model with sticky rental prices and goods prices … housing expenditure share. Since production of housing services uses the stocks of housing intensively, large fluctuations in …
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American ski resorts. To do so, we combine data on resort-area housing prices from two sources--data on average prices for U … snowfall in winter precipitation yield precise and consistent estimates of positive snowfall effects on housing values in both …
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We evaluate the importance of three different channels for explaining the recent performance of subprime mortgages. First, the riskiness of the subprime borrowing pool may have increased. Second, pockets of regional economic weakness may have helped push a larger proportion of subprime borrowers...
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We investigate the behavior of the equilibrium price-rent ratio for housing in a standard asset pricing model. We allow … returns on housing and the price-rent ratio. Only the moving-average model predicts a positive correlation such that agents … survey evidence on the expectations of real-world housing investors. …
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Progress on the question of whether policymakers should respond directly to financial variables requires a realistic economic model that captures the links between asset prices, credit expansion, and real economic activity. Standard DSGE models with fully-rational expectations have difficulty...
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We show that house prices may be driven entirely by the demands of one identifiable group for several years and then by demands of another group at other times. We present evidence that house prices in Hawaii were subject to such regime shifts. Prices responded to demands associated with...
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Speech to the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford, California, April 3, 2008
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Presentation to Lambda Alpha International and Arizona Bankers Association, Phoenix, Arizona, January 7, 2014
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