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Using urban household surveys, we constructed a panel dataset to study the effects of the Argentine macroeconomic …
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A number of industrialized countries have recently offered inflation-indexed bonds. Some members of another group of countries that had earlier adopted more comprehensive indexation in response to high inflation have taken steps to reduce the scope of indexation in their economies. This paper...
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This paper separates the roles of demand for housing services and belief about future house prices in a house price … cycle, by utilizing a feature of user-cost-of-housing that it is sensitive to demand for housing services only. Optimality … conditions of producing housing services determine user-cost-of-housing and the elasticity of substitution between land and …
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This paper outlines an operational approach for incorporating the impact of asset price cycles in the calculation of structural fiscal balances (SFBs). The global financial crisis demonstrated that movements in asset prices can have an important fiscal impact. Failing to account for the fiscal...
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of bubbles forming there. However, China's unique housing market characteristics make it difficult to assess the …
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Housing market imbalances are a key source of systemic risk and can adversely affect housing affordability. This paper …, financial stability, and housing affordability. Not surprisingly, when faced with multiple objectives, deploying more policy …
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-level data, we identify households vulnerable to potential housing shocks and assess the riskiness of household debt …To identify and quantify downside risks to housing markets, we apply the house price-at-risk methodology to a sample of … risks to housing markets in the United States have seemingly fallen over the past decade, while having increased in Canada …
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output, but significant in consumption, consumer prices, and variables related to local housing and labor markets. Building a … small open economy model featuring a housing sector and calibrating it to Spain, we show that varying the share of …
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higher household debt. This paper presents two analyses which suggest that housing prices in Georgetown and banks' lending to … stability. These include strengthening the monitoring of the housing market, bank lending practices and household debt, as well … discovery of oil in 2015. In line with the growing demand for housing, commercial banks' housing loans have increased, prompting …
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It is generally acknowledged that the government's output is difficult to define and its value is hard to measure. The practical solution, adopted by national accounts systems, is to equate output to input costs. However, several studies estimate significant inefficiencies in government...
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