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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 …

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House prices and rents: micro evidence from a matched dataset in Central London

Bracke, Philippe - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Using the proprietary dataset of a real estate agency, I analyse tens of thousands of housing sale and rental …

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Immigration and the access to social housing in the UK

Battiston, Diego; Dickens, Richard; Manning, Alan; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of immigration on the probability of being in social housing in the UK. In recent … years immigrant households are slightly more likely than natives to be in social housing but once one controls for relevant … household characteristics immigrants are significantly less likely to be in social housing than natives. However, there has been …

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Long-term debt and hidden borrowing

Bar-Isaac, Heski; Cuñat, Alejandro - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

We consider borrowers with the opportunity to raise funds from a competitive banking sector that shares information, and from an alternative hidden lender. The presence of the hidden lender restricts the contracts that can be obtained from the banking sector. In equilibrium some borrowers obtain...

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Looking ahead: subjective time perception and individual discounting

Bradford, W. David; Dolan, Paul; Galizzi, Matteo M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Time discounting is at the heart of economic decision-making. We disentangle hyperbolic discounting from subjective time perception using experimental data from incentive-compatible tests to measure time preferences, and a set of experimental tasks to measure time perception. The two behavioural...

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