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International Migration and Regional Housing Markets : Evidence from France

d'Albis, Hippolyte - 2017

This article examines the causal relations between non-European immigration and the characteristics of the housing market in host regions. We constructed a unique database from administrative records and used it to assess annual migration flows into France's 22 administrative regions from 1990...

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The Effects of Flood Insurance on Housing Markets

Indaco, Agustín - 2018

We analyze the role of food insurance on the housing markets of coastal cities. To do so we have assembled a parcel-level dataset including the universe of residential sales for three coastal urban areas in the United States – Miami-Dade county (2008-2015), New York city (2003-2016), and...

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Rising Sea Levels and Sinking Property Values : The Effects of Hurricane Sandy on New York's Housing Market

Ortega, Francesc - 2016

Are coastal cities adjusting to rising sea levels? This paper argues that large-scale events have the potential to ignite the process. We examine the effects of hurricane Sandy on the New York City housing market. We assemble a large plot-level dataset with rich geographic data on housing sales...

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Trend-Spotting in the Housing Market

Askitas, Nikos - 2015

seasonal variations of this ratio the BUSE index recaptures traces of prospect theory whose applicability in the housing market …

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Superstition, Conspicuous Spending, and Housing Markets : Evidence from Singapore

Agarwal, Sumit - 2016

For most people, buying a home is their single largest financial commitment. Previous research shows that Chinese buyers pay less for homes with unlucky addresses and more for homes with lucky addresses. Using Singapore data on housing transactions combined with a plethora of individual buyer...

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How Do Households Discount Over Centuries? Evidence from Singapore's Private Housing Market

Fesselmeyer, Eric - 2016

We examine Singapore's fairly homogeneous private-housing market and show that new apartments on historical multi-century leases trade at a non-zero discount relative to property owned in perpetuity. Descriptive regressions indicate that new apartments with 825 to 986 years of tenure remaining...

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Marketmaking Middlemen

Gautier, Pieter A. - 2016

This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode …. We consider two representative business modes of intermediation that are widely used in real-life markets: one is a … our model, buyers and sellers can simultaneously search in an outside market and use the intermediation service. We show …

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The Relationship between the Housing & Labor Market Crises and Doubling-Up : An MSA-Level Analysis, 2005-2010

Rogers, William H. - 2013

It is now well-established that the U.S. housing market crisis preceded the labor market crisis and that, in the wake of these crises, doubling-up and cohabitation increased and homeownership fell. What is less clear is what happened at the subnational level. This study reports on: 1) how the...

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Does Juan Carlos or Nelson Obtain a Larger Price Cut in the Spanish Housing Market?

Nicodemo, Catia - 2018

Using a unique dataset a non-parametric decomposition, we determined whether immigrants with native name, immigrants with foreign name and natives have different outcomes in Spain's housing market. Results suggest there are significant price discounts for immigrants with native names relative to...

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Superstition in the Housing Market

Fortin, Nicole M. - 2013

We provide the first solid evidence that Chinese superstitious beliefs can have significant effects on house prices in a North American market with a large immigrant population. Using real estate data on close to 117,000 house sales, we find that houses with address number ending in four are...

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