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the United States, housing collateral effects on consumption are absent. Given credit conditions, rising house prices … mostly explained by movements in incomes, housing supply, mortgage interest rates and credit conditions, suggesting that the …
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We use administrative data for Norway to estimate an incomplete-market life cycle model of retired singles and couples with a bequest motive, health-dependent utility, and uncertain longevity and health. We allow the parameters of the bequest utility to differ between households with and without...
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In this paper, we estimate the effect on housing prices of the expansion of the Vancouver SkyTrain rapid transit … expansion increases housing prices not only in neighborhoods where the expansion occurred, but also in those with access to pre …-existing segments of the network. We show how these network housing price effects depend on household commuting patterns, and discuss …
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The common-factor hypothesis is one possible explanation for the housing wealth effect. Under this hypothesis, house … price appreciation is related to changes in consumption as long as the available proxies for the common driver of housing … and non-housing demand are noisy and housing supply is not perfectly elastic. We simulate a model in which a common factor …
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How do households respond to unanticipated income shocks? I build and estimate a quantitative model of bounded rationality in which reoptimization is costly. Households respond to windfall income shocks by choosing a finite planning horizon over which to reoptimize. The optimal horizon is...
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Should monetary policy lean against housing market booms? We approach this question using a small-scale, regime …-switching New Keynesian model, where housing market crashes arrive with a logit probability that depends on the level of household …
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I examine the impact of non-regulated lenders in the mortgage market using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model. My model features two types of financial intermediaries that differ in three ways: (i) only regulated intermediaries face a capital requirement, (ii) non-regulated...
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The consumption boom-bust cycle in the 2000s coincided with large fluctuations in the volume of home equity borrowing. Contrary to conventional wisdom, I show that homeowners largely borrowed for residential investment and not consumption. I rationalize this empirical finding using a calibrated...
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-deviation contractionary monetary policy surprise lowers housing list prices by 0.2%- 0.3% within two weeks-a magnitude on par with the effect …
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The paper studies the determinants of being unbanked in the euro area and the United States as well as the effects of being unbanked on wealth accumulation. Based on household-level data from The Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey and the U.S. Survey of Consumer Finances, it...
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