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Much of the literature on the effect of housing wealth on consumption has been embedded in a simple life-cycle model in … which housing price changes work as a wealth effect. In such models, windfall gains in housing always lead to positive … changes in consumption. However, this might constitute a fallacy of composition. Such models ignore that changes in housing …
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market, the labor market, the credit market and the housing market. A set of computational experiments, based on numerical … conditions required by the banking system to grant a mortgage. The authors find that easier access to credit inflates housing … usually caused by falling housing prices. Often the authors find that an initial crisis can leave firms in a fragile state. If …
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in asset prices, especially as regards housing, though no systematic effects are identified on equity markets …
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internet platform for real estate to investigate the effect of Fukushima on the German housing market. Using a difference …
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Entgegen der Regierungsmeinung, eine Preisexplosion im Wohnungsmarkt bremsen zu müssen, kommen wir zu dem Ergebnis …
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In this paper, the authors construct a unique data set of Internet offer prices for flats in 48 large European cities from 24 countries. The data are collected between January and May 2012 from 33 websites, where the advertisements of flats for sale are placed. Using the resulting sample of...
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Output gap estimates at the current edge are subject to severe revisions. This study analyzes whether monetary aggregates can be used to improve the reliability of early output gap estimates as proposed by several theoretical models. A real-time experiment shows that real M1 can improve output...
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We study the forecasting performance of three alternative large scale approaches using a dataset for Germany that consists of 123 variables in quarterly frequency. These three approaches handle the dimensionality problem evoked by such a large dataset by aggregating information, yet on different...
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We examine both the degree and the structural stability of inflation persistence at different quantiles of the conditional inflation distribution. Previous research focused exclusively on persistence at the conditional mean of the inflation rate. As economic theory provides reasons for inflation...
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