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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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, financial security, and mental health. We find that assistance increased rent payment modestly and improved mental health …
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rent are strongly correlated with perceptions of house price risk. Households' exposure to housing risk due to financial … constraints, expected mobility or labor income risk affect the decision to buy versus rent but do not mitigate the impact of risk …
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We study the joint evolution of prices and rents of residential property. After constructing rent and price indices for … rent, (2) changes in the relative prices of investor- and occupant-owned properties, and (3) changes in the price-rent …
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This paper uses new household survey data to study expectation formation during the recent housing boom in Germany. The cross section of forecasts depends on only two household characteristics: location and tenure. The average household in a region responds to local conditions but underpredicts...
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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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. The model predicts that a credit supply shock can generate large comovements between the house price and the price-to-rent …Aggregate housing demand shocks are an important source of house price fluctuations in the standard macroeconomic … to generate a highly volatile price-to-rent ratio that comoves with the house price observed in the data (the "price-rent …
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of housing demand. Our model generalizes previous applied econometric work by incorporating realistic features of the … for capturing salient features of housing demand observed in the PSID. After estimating the model we use it to simulate …
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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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Urban economists understand housing prices with a spatial equilibrium approach that assumes people must be indifferent across locations. Since the spatial no arbitrage condition is inherently imprecise, other economists have turned to different no arbitrage conditions, such as the prediction...
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