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after entering homeownership. The negative link can be rationalized by portfolio considerations: leveraged housing …
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We present a modified open monocentric city model that assumes that land is available for conversion into new housing … throughout the city. The model predicts that positive local income shocks (i) increase the city’s share of multi-family housing … Housing Survey from 1984 to 2004 and find support for both predictions. We confirm that the adjustment process is driven by …
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Using the proprietary dataset of a real estate agency, I analyse tens of thousands of housing sale and rental …
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We explore the impact of central government grants on local house prices in England using a panel data set of local authorities (LAs) from 2001 to 2008. Electoral targeting of grants to LAs by the incumbent national government provides an exogenous source of variation in grants that we exploit...
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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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equilibrium framework. Preferences are modelled such that demand for housing units in the city is downward sloping, which yields a … redeveloped land that accrues to its owner. However, depending on the price elasticity of urban housing demand and the strength of …
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