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Foreclosure, Vacancy and Crime
Cui, Lin - 2014
This paper examines the impact of residential foreclosures and vacancies on violent and property crime. To overcome confounding factors, a difference-in-difference research design is applied to a unique data set containing geocoded foreclosure and crime data from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....
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Understanding Commercial Real Estate : Just How Different from Housing is it?
Gyourko, Joseph - 2020
Recent sharp declines in owner-occupied housing prices naturally raise the question of whether something similar will happen to income-producing properties. It already has based on the nearly 60% decline in the share prices of publicly-traded, commercial property firms from their peak in early...
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Liquidity Constraints in the U.S. Housing Market
Gorea, Denis - 2017
We study the severity of liquidity constraints in the U.S. housing market using a life-cycle model with uninsurable idiosyncratic risks in which houses are illiquid, but agents can extract home equity by refinancing their mortgages. The model implies that four-fifths of homeowners are liquidity...
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Buying the American Dream : Housing Demand in the United States in the Late Nineteenth Century
Haines, Michael R.; Goodman, Allen C. - 2021
, age of household head, region, industry, occupation, ethnicity, and family size and? composition. Rental prices and value …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220430
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Housing and Saving in the United States
Skinner, Jonathan S. - 2021
The efficient markets hypothesis has dominated modern research on asset prices. Asset prices and their intrinsic values differ in inefficient financial markets but difficulties in the measurement of intrinsic value greatly complicate market efficiency tests. Reflections on the measurement of...
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An Altered U.S. Housing Finance System : Implications for Housing
Hendershott, Patric H. - 2015
During the 1960s and 1970s, the U.S. government closely regulated the single-family housing finance system. The regulation manifested itself in a highly specialized system with four notable characteristics: portfolio restrictions against investments in corporate assets, tax inducements to invest...
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Housing Discrimination and the Toxics Exposure Gap in the United States : Evidence from the Rental Market
Christensen, Peter; Sarmiento-Barbieri, Ignacio; … - 2022
Local pollution exposures disproportionately impact minority households, but the root causes remain unclear. This study conducts a correspondence experiment on a major online housing platform to test whether housing discrimination constrains minority access to housing options in markets with...
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House Prices, Home Equity-Based Borrowing, and the U.S. Household Leverage Crisis
Mian, Atif R. - 2010
.S. household leverage from 2002 to 2006 and the increase in defaults from 2006 to 2008. Employing land topology-based housing …
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Families as Roommates : Changes in U.S. Household Size from 1850 to 2000
Salcedo, Alejandrina - 2009
household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the … number of adults in a household have fallen dramatically. We develop a simple theory of household size where living with … others is beneficial solely because the costs of household public goods can be shared. In other words, we abstract from intra …
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Forward Guidance and Household Expectations
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
. Information treatments about current and next year's interest rates have a strong effect on household expectations but treatments …
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