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Repairing a Mortgage Crisis : Holc Lending and its Impact on Local Housing Markets
Courtemanche, Charles - 2010
increased 1940 median home values and homeownership rates, but not new home building …
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The Effect of Housing on Portfolio Choice
Chetty, Raj - 2015
Economic theory predicts that home ownership should have a negative effect on risk-taking in financial portfolios. However, empirical work has not found a strong relationship between housing and portfolios. We identify two reasons for the divergence between the theory and data. First, it is...
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Arbitrage in Housing Markets
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2015
Urban economists understand housing prices with a spatial equilibrium approach that assumes people must be indifferent across locations. Since the spatial no arbitrage condition is inherently imprecise, other economists have turned to different no arbitrage conditions, such as the prediction...
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Dynamics of Housing Debt in the Recent Boom and Great Recession
Adelino, Manuel - 2017
This paper documents a number of key facts about the evolution of mortgage debt, homeownership, debt burden and … over the boom period. While homeownership rates increased for the middle and upper income households, there was no increase … in homeownership for the lowest income groups. Finally, default rates post-crisis went up predominantly in areas with …
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Owner-Occupied Housing as a Hedge Against Rent Risk
Sinai, Todd M. - 2012
in house values. However, homeownership also provides a hedge against fluctuations in future rent payments. This paper … households so housing market risk actually increases homeownership rates and house prices. Further, the net effect of rent risk … on the demand for homeownership increases with a household's expected length of stay in its home, as the cumulative rent …
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Does Home Owning Smooth the Variability of Future Housing Consumption?
Paciorek, Andrew - 2010
We show that the hedging benefit of owning a home reduces the variability of housing consumption after a move. When a current home owner's house price covaries positively with housing costs in a future city, changes in the future cost of housing are offset by commensurate changes in wealth...
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What Have They Been Thinking? Home Buyer Behavior in Hot and Cold Markets
Case, Karl E. - 2012
Questionnaire surveys undertaken in 1988 and annually from 2003 through 2014 of recent homebuyers in each of four U.S. metropolitan areas shed light on their expectations and reasons for buying during the recent housing boom and subsequent collapse. They also provide insight into the reasons for...
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The Home Front : Rent Control and the Rapid Wartime Increase in Home Ownership
Fetter, Daniel - 2013
The US home ownership rate rose by 10 percentage points between 1940 and 1945, about half the size of the net change over the 20th century, despite severe restrictions on construction during World War II. I present evidence that wartime rent control played an important role in this shift. The...
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Can Owning a Home Hedge the Risk of Moving?
Sinai, Todd M. - 2010
Conventional wisdom holds that one of the riskiest aspects of owning a house is the uncertainty surrounding its sale price, especially if one moves to another housing market. However, households who sell a house typically buy another house, whose purchase price is also uncertain. We show that...
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House Prices, Home Equity-Based Borrowing, and the U.S. Household Leverage Crisis
Mian, Atif R. - 2010
Using individual-level data on homeowner debt and defaults from 1997 to 2008, we show that borrowing against the increase in home equity by existing homeowners is responsible for a significant fraction of both the sharp rise in U.S. household leverage from 2002 to 2006 and the increase in...
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