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Explaining spatial variation in homeownership rates: Results for German regions
Lerbs, Oliver; Oberst, Christian - 2011
A wide range of aggregate data is used to examine the spatial variation in homeownership rates among a cross-section of … spatial dependence in homeownership levels. In addition to familiar demographic and socioeconomic variables, the regional … disparities in homeownership rates between eastern and western Germany as well as between rural, urbanized and agglomerated …
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A theory of urban squatting and land-tenure formalization in developing countries
Brueckner, Jan Keith; Selod, Harris - 2008
This paper offers a new theoretical approach to urban squatting, reflecting the view that squatters and formal residents compete for land within a city. The key implication of this view is that squatters squeeze" the formal market, raising the price paid by formal residents. The squatter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271850
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Supply Restrictions, Subprime Lending and Regional US House Prices
Anundsen, André Kallåk; Heebøll, Christian - 2015
With regard to the recent US house price cycle, we analyze how the interaction between housing supply restrictions, mortgage credit constraints and a price-to-price feedback loop affects house price volatility. Considering 247 Metropolitan Statistical Areas, we estimate a simultaneous boom-bust...
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Home Ownership and Monetary Policy Transmission
Koeniger, Winfried - 2019
We present empirical evidence on the heterogeneity in monetary policy transmission across countries with different home ownership rates. We use household-level data together with shocks to the policy rate identified from high-frequency data. We find that housing tenure reacts more strongly to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892226
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Pensions, Income Taxes and Homeownership : A Cross-Country Analysis
Fehr, Hans; Hofmann, Maurice; Kudrna, George - 2021
This paper studies the role of pensions and income taxes in determining homeownership and household wealth. It provides … have similar incomes per capita but very different homeownership rates, with the US and Australia having much higher … homeownership compared to Germany. The question is to what extent the observed differences in homeownership are induced by national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216249
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Will Destination-Based Taxes be Fully Exploited when Available? An Application to the U.S. Commodity Tax System
Agrawal, David R.; Mardan, Mohammed - 2018
We develop a tax competition model that allows for the setting of both an origin-based and a destination-based commodity tax rate in the presence of avoidance and evasion. In the presence of evasion, jurisdictions will give cross-border shoppers tax preferential treatment, thus not fully...
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Using a discontinuous grant to identify the effect of grants on local taxes and spending
Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva; Rattsø, Jørn - 2006
When investigating the effects of federal grants on the behavior of lower-level governments, it is hard to defend the handling of grants as an exogenous factor affecting local governments; federal governments often set grants based on characteristics and performance of local governments. In this...
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Cities in fiscal equalization
Buettner, Thiess; Holm-Hadulla, Fédéric - 2008
Redistributive grants schemes, such as fiscal equalization, are a common characteristic of local public finance in several countries. However, large and small jurisdictions are treated differently by the respective fiscal equalization schemes that often tend to favour larger jurisdictions. This...
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Does Coordination Among Assessing Units Generate Returns to Scale? Evidence from New York State
Hou, Yilin; Kim, Yusun; Yinger, John - 2019
This paper explores (dis-)economies of scale in property value assessment via cooperative agreements among small tax assessing jurisdictions without consolidation. New York State incentivizes small neighboring towns to unify their assessment function while maintaining respective tax authority;...
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Fiscal Autonomy and Self-Determination
Loumeau, Gabriel; Stettler, Christian - 2021
This paper studies the equilibrium effects of local fiscal autonomy accounting for benefits from self-determination. It proposes a quantifiable structural equilibrium framework in which imperfectly mobile heterogeneous households sort themselves across jurisdictions under endogenous public good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799745