Assets in tax-deferred retirement accounts (TDA) and housing are two major components of household portfolios. In this … paper, we develop a life-cycle model to examine the interaction between households' use of TDA and their housing decisions … earlier in their lives. On the other hand, housing-related policies, such as a minimum down payment requirement and mortgage …

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 …

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 …

-deviation contractionary monetary policy surprise lowers housing list prices by 0.2%- 0.3% within two weeks-a magnitude on par with the effect …

the long-run variance of the ratio of house prices to non-housing consumption. Most of the variation in the house price …. On average, a permanent 1 per cent decline in real import prices raises the ratio of real house prices to non-housing …