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Home equity insurance policies, policies insuring homeowners against declines in the price of their homes, would bear some resemblance both to ordinary insurance and to financial hedging vehicles. A menu of choices for the design of such policies is presented here, and conceptual issues are...
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Oswald hypothesizes that regions and countries with high homeownership rates will experience higher natural rates of … unemployment and that rising homeownership in OECD countries since the 1960s provides a key explanation for the rise in the natural … have significantly slower exits from unemployment. Overall, homeownership does not increase unemployment. Finally, in line …
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Owner-occupied housing is said to be favored in the tax code because mortgage interest and property taxes can be deducted in the computation of one's income tax base in spite of the fact that the returns from owner- occupied housing = not taxed. The special tax treatment reduces the user cost of...
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Tests of weak-form efficiency of the market for single family homes are performed using data on repeat sales prices of 39,210 individual homes, each for two sales dates. Tests were done for Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, and San Francisco/Oakland for 1970-86. While evidence for seasonality in real...
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