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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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Social networks and housing markets

Bailey, Michael; Cao, Ruiqing; Kuchler, Theresa; … - 2016

The recent house price experiences within an individual's social network affect her perceptions of the attractiveness of property investments, and through this channel have large effects on her housing market activity. Our data combine anonymized social network information from Facebook with...

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Gentrification and neighborhood housing cycles : will America's future downtowns be rich?

Brueckner, Jan K. (contributor); … - 2005

This paper identifies a new factor, the age of the housing stock, that affects where high- and low-income neighborhoods are located in U.S. cities. High-income households, driven by a high demand for housing services, will tend to locate in areas of the city where the housing stock is relatively...

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Housing market dynamics : on the contribution of income shocks and credit constraints

Ortalo-Magné, François; Rady, Sven - 2001

This paper presents a dynamic theory of housing market fluctuations. It develops a life-cycle model where households are heterogeneous with respect to income and preferences, and mortgage lending is restricted by a down-payment requirement. The market interaction of young credit-constrained...

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A theory of urban squatting and land-tenure formalization in developing countries

Brueckner, Jan K. (contributor); Selod, Harris (contributor) - 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 squeezeʺ the formal market, raising the price paid by formal residents. The squatter...

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Google it up! : a Google Trendsbased uncertainty index for the United States and Australia

Castelnuovo, Efrem; Tran, Trung Duc - 2017

We develop uncertainty indices for the United States and Australia based on freely accessible, real time Google Trends … to unemployment dynamics in Australia is found to be much milder and substantially lower than that of monetary policy …

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The rate of return on everything, 1870-2015

Jordà, Òscar; Knoll, Katharina; Kuvshinov, Dmitry; … - 2018

This paper answers fundamental questions that have preoccupied modern economic thought since the 18th century. What is the aggregate real rate of return in the economy? Is it higher than the growth rate of the economy and, if so, by how much? Is there a tendency for returns to fall in the...

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Does homeownership promote wealth accumulation?

Kaas, Leo; Kocharkov, Georgi; Preugschat, Edgar - 2016

is often used as an argument for policies that foster homeownership. However, the causal link between homeownership and … wealth position of the household only through homeownership. For the sample of inheritors we find that the local average …

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Wealth inequality and homeownership in Europe

Kaas, Leo; Kocharkov, Georgi; Preugschat, Edgar - 2015

between the countries of the Euro area. We find a strong negative correlation between wealth inequality and homeownership … by homeownership status shows that the negative relationship is mostly driven by large between-group inequality across … crosscountry inequality differences. We confirm the major role for homeownership rates in accounting for the wealth inequality …

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Homeownership and entrepreneurship : the role of mortgage debt and commitment

Bracke, Philippe; Hilber, Christian; Silva, Olmo - 2014

We study the link between homeownership, mortgage debt, and entrepreneurship using a model of occupational choice and …

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