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The Housing Market(s) of San Diego
Landvoigt, Tim; Piazzesi, Monika; Schneider, Martin - In: American Economic Review 105 (2015) 4, pp. 1371-1407
for housing is derived from a life-cycle problem with credit market frictions. Equilibrium house prices adjust to assign …
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The Response of Household Saving to the Large Shock of German Reunification
Fuchs-Schundeln, Nicola - In: American Economic Review 98 (2008) 5, pp. 1798-1828
German reunification was a large, unexpected shock for East Germans. Exploiting German reunification as a natural experiment, I analyze the validity of the life-cycle consumption model. I derive three stylized features concerning the saving behavior of East versus West Germans after...
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Intertemporal Consumption and Credit Constraints: Does Total Expenditure Respond to an Exogenous Shock to Credit?
Leth-Petersen, Søren - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 3, pp. 1080-1103
enabled Danish house owners to use housing equity as collateral for consumption loans. We find that the magnitude of the …
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Life Insurance and Household Consumption
Hong, Jay H.; Ríos-Rull, José-Víctor - In: American Economic Review 102 (2012) 7, pp. 3701-30
Using life insurance holdings by age, sex, and marital status, we infer how individuals value consumption in different demographic stages. We estimate equivalence scales and bequest motives simultaneously within a fully specified model where agents face US demographics and save and purchase life...
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Catching Up with the Economy
Fogel, Robert W. - In: American Economic Review 89 (1999) 1, pp. 1-21
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Mortgages, Risk, and Homeownership among Low- and Moderate-Income Families
Bostic, Raphael W.; Lee, Kwan Ok - In: American Economic Review 98 (2008) 2, pp. 310-14
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Did the 2008 Tax Rebates Stimulate Spending?
Shapiro, Matthew D.; Slemrod, Joel - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 2, pp. 374-79
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Immigration and Poverty in the United States
Raphael, Steven; Smolensky, Eugene - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 2, pp. 41-44
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What Do High-Interest Borrowers Do with Their Tax Rebate?
Bertrand, Marianne; Morse, Adair - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 2, pp. 418-23
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Optimal Progressive Labor Income Taxation and Education Subsidies When Education Decisions and Intergenerational Transfers Are Endogenous
Krueger, Dirk; Ludwig, Alexander - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 496-501
We quantitatively characterize the optimal mix of progressive income taxes and education subsidies in a model with endogenous human capital formation, borrowing constraints, income risk and incomplete financial markets. In addition to the distortions of labor supply, progressive taxes weaken the...
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