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to holders of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS). Using detailed micro data, we show that cash flow shocks … during the COVID-19 pandemic predict CRE mortgage delinquency, especially those stemming from lease expiration of offices …
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purchasing and mortgage financing decisions. Finally, we highlight research on how expectations affect aggregate outcomes in the …
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We quantify the housing-consumption channel in mortgage demand according to which households borrow more following … a structural approach to mortgage demand and supply, exploiting exogenous variation in house-price growth and a unique … dataset with matched transaction-price and mortgage information. We estimate an elasticity of mortgage borrowing to house …
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Tall buildings are central to facilitating sustainable urbanization and growth in cities worldwide. We estimate average elasticities of city population and built area to aggregate city building heights of 0.12 and -0.17, respectively, indicating that the largest global cities in developing...
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Round numbers affect behavior in various domains, e.g., as prominent thresholds or focal points in bargaining. In line with earlier findings, residential real estate transactions in Germany cluster at round-number prices, but there are also interesting (presumably cultural) differences. We...
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We develop a programming algorithm that predicts a balanced-panel mix-adjusted house price index for arbitrary spatial units from repeated cross-sections of geocoded micro data. The algorithm combines parametric and non-parametric estimation techniques to provide a tight local fit where the...
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Is there a link between loose monetary conditions, credit growth, house price booms, and financial instability? This paper analyzes the role of interest rates and credit in driving house price booms and busts with data spanning 140 years of modern economic history in the advanced economies. We...
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course of the 20th century, driven by a sharp rise of mortgage lending to households. Household debt to asset ratios have …
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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...
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Using high-frequency administrative data covering millions of US homeowners, I document three novel facts about homeowner responses to property tax increases driven by rising home values. First, non-migrating homeowners cut consumption, exhibit financial distress, and do not borrow against their...
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