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Florida (Un)Chained
Calomiris, Charles W.; Jaremski, Matthew S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
To understand a price boom, it is helpful to take account of: (1) observable indicators of changes in ex ante risk tolerance, (2) what information exists and when, and (3) the incentives lenders face. This paper takes such an approach to the Florida land boom of the mid-1920s, the U.S.' first...
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An IV Hazard Model of Loan Default with an Application to Subprime Mortgage Cohorts
Palmer, Christopher J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
asymptotically normal. Applying my estimator to the subprime mortgage crisis, I quantify what caused the foreclosure rate to triple … standards, with a 10% decline in home prices increasing subprime mortgage default rates by 50% …
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House Prices and Rents in the 21st Century
Loewenstein, Lara; Willen, Paul - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
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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Are Swedish House Prices Too High? Why the Price-to-Income Ratio Is a Misleading Indicator
Svensson, Lars E. O. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
(not overvalued), by about 30% in 2019q4. Due to rising mortgage rates, they are less undervalued in 2023q2, but still …The PTI ratio disregards mortgage rates and other housing costs and lacks scientific support. According to a large …
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How Do Foreclosures Exacerbate Housing Downturns?
Guren, Adam M. - 2019
This paper uses a structural model to show that foreclosures played a crucial role in exacerbating the recent housing bust and to analyze foreclosure mitigation policy. We consider a dynamic search model in which foreclosures freeze the market for non-foreclosures and reduce price and sales...
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Mortgage Design in an Equilibrium Model of the Housing Market
Guren, Adam M. - 2018
mortgage design interact with monetary policy? We answer these questions using a quantitative equilibrium life cycle model with … policy. Designs that raise mortgage payments in booms and lower them in recessions do better than designs with fixed mortgage … concentrate them in recessions outperform designs that spread payment reductions over the life of the mortgage. Front …
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Why is Intermediating Houses so Difficult? Evidence from iBuyers
Buchak, Greg - 2020
We study the frictions in dealer-intermediation in residential real estate through the lens of "iBuyers," technology entrants, who purchase and sell residential real estate through online platforms. iBuyers supply liquidity to households by allowing them to avoid a lengthy sale process. They...
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Access to Long-Term Care After a Wealth Shock : Evidence from the Housing Bubble and Burst
Font, Joan Costa - 2017
Home equity is the primary self-funding mechanism for long term services and supports (LTSS). Using data from the relevant waves of the Health and Retirement Study (1996-2010), we exploit the exogenous variation in the form of wealth shocks resulting from the value of housing assets, to examine...
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Speculative Fever : Investor Contagion in the Housing Bubble
Bayer, Patrick - 2016
, abound. While the role of investor contagion in asset bubbles has been explored extensively in the theoretical literature …
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House Prices, Home Equity-Based Borrowing, and the U.S. Household Leverage Crisis
Mian, Atif R. - 2009
Using individual-level data on homeowner debt and defaults from 1997 to 2008, we show that borrowing against the increase in home equity by existing homeowners is responsible for a significant fraction of both the sharp rise in U.S. household leverage from 2002 to 2006 and the increase in...
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