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In this essay, we review the basic economics of housing supply and the functioning of US housing markets to better …
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going to understand boom-bust housing cycles, we must incorporate housing supply. In this paper, we present a simple model … of housing bubbles that predicts that places with more elastic housing supply have fewer and shorter bubbles, with … exclusively experienced in cities where housing supply is more inelastic. More elastic places had slightly larger increases in …
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Historical anecdotes of new investors being drawn into a booming asset market, only to suffer when the market turns, abound. While the role of investor contagion in asset bubbles has been explored extensively in the theoretical literature, causal empirical evidence on the topic is virtually...
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Using bi-weekly snapshots of Zillow in three US cities, we document how home sellers and buyers interact with Zillow's Zestimate algorithm during the sales cycle of residential properties. We find that listing and selling outcomes respond significantly to Zestimate, and Zestimate is quickly...
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the bid-rent curve is larger when working from home is more prevalent, housing markets are more regulated, and supply is …
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segmentation. We estimate this moment using three different credit supply instruments and use it to calibrate our model. Our …
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empirical strategy for estimating so-called 'zoning taxes' - the amount by which land prices are bid up due to supply side … zoning tax estimates are strongly positively correlated with a new measure of local housing market supply constraint (the …
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We report results from a new survey of local residential land use regulatory regimes for over 2,450 primarily suburban communities across the U.S. The most highly regulated markets are on the two coasts, with the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan areas being the most highly regulated...
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We study the joint evolution of prices and rents of residential property. After constructing rent and price indices for renter- and owner-occupied properties, we decompose the change in the price of occupant-owned property into (1) changes in rent, (2) changes in the relative prices of investor-...
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Internal migration in the United States has declined substantially over the past several decades, which has important implications for individual welfare, macroeconomic adjustments, and other key outcomes. This paper studies the determinants of internal migration and how they have changed over...
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