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Immigration, Housing Rents, and Residential Segregation : Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Balkan, Binnur - 2018
The massive inflow of Syrian refugees is argued to drastically affect various social and economic outcomes in the hosting countries and regions. In this paper, we use micro-level data to investigate whether the Syrian refugee inflows have affected the market for housing rentals in Turkey. The...
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Trend-Spotting in the Housing Market
Askitas, Nikos - 2015
I create a time series of weekly ratios of Google searches, in the US, on buying and selling in the Real Estate Category of Google Trends. I call this ratio the Google US Housing Market BUSE Index or simply the BUSE index. It expresses the number of "buy"-searches for each "sell"-search which,...
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Differences in Quality of Life Estimates Using Rents and Home Values
Winters, John V. - 2012
more dispersed than rent-based estimates, likely because of the recent housing bubble and because housing values often …
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Taxing Home Ownership : Distributional Effects of Including Net Imputed Rent in Taxable Income
Figari, Francesco - 2012
rent, net of mortgage interest and maintenance costs, in taxable income as any cash income source that extends consumption … opportunities. Three scenarios are analysed in six European countries: in the first imputed rent is included in the taxable income … abolished. In two further revenue-neutral scenarios, the additional tax revenue raised through the taxation of imputed rent is …
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Rent Building, Rent Sharing : A Panel Country-Industry Empirical Analysis
Askenazy, Philippe - 2012
Through panel estimates using OECD country-industry statistics, this paper aims to clarify the determinants of rent … creation and the mechanisms of rent sharing, and the role of market regulations in these processes. The empirical analysis is … carried out in two steps. The first explains the rent creation process. For each country-industry-year observation, the size …
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Estimating Who Benefits from Productivity Growth : Direct and Indirect Effects of City Manufacturing TFP Growth on Wages, Rents, and Inequality
Hornbeck, Richard - 2019
We estimate direct and indirect effects of total factor productivity growth in manufacturing on US workers' earnings, housing costs, and purchasing power. Drawing on four alternative instrumental variables, we consistently find that when a city experiences productivity gains in manufacturing,...
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Short-Term Rental Bans and Housing Prices : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Lisbon
Gonçalves, Duarte; Peralta, Susana; Pereira dos … - 2022
We estimate the causal impact of a 2018 zoning reform that banned new short-term rental registries in some parts of Lisbon. The short-term rental licence expires when the house is sold, hence the ban removes the option value of short-term renting a property. We rely on two administrative data...
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Mortgage Finance and Culture
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2018
Using a nationally representative sample of 12,344 immigrants from 41 different countries of ancestry living in Spain in 2007, we find that the higher the housing-loan penetration in the country of ancestry, the higher the likelihood of having a mortgage in Spain. Similarly, the higher the...
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Home Ownership and Monetary Policy Transmission
Koeniger, Winfried - 2018
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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Home Ownership and Home Equity Promote Entrepreneurial Activity
Hassink, Wolter H.J; Millone, Matteo; Mocking, Remco; … - 2021
This paper studies the effects of private real estate collateral on entrepreneurial lending and entrepreneurial activity in the Netherlands. The residential collateral channel is especially relevant for sole-proprietors who own a business with unlimited liability. We used administrative data on...
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