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This paper studies temporary policy incentives designed to address capital overhang by inducing asset demand from buyers in the private market. Using variation across local geographies in ex ante program exposure and a difference-in-differences design, we find that the First-Time Homebuyer...
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This paper provides new estimates of the housing stock, construction rates and price developments by city tier in China … construction. We argue that China overall faces imbalances between supply and demand for housing stock, but the problem is … China's GDP and its housing stock …
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sectors. This paper is about economic behaviors that anticipate technical progress, and how they may describe the housing … price and construction boom of 2000-2006 and the bust thereafter. Specifically, I note that only a minority of housing … mortgage and real estate industries have the potential to both move housing prices and non-residential consumption in the same …
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This paper provides a search model for housing market where the number of buyers and/or sellers plays very important … the sale prices of the housing market; (2) a larger housing market has a lower average sale price, shorter time …-to-sale and smaller price dispersion, in addition to a lower vacancy rate. (3) In a larger housing market, when the unemployment …
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This paper studies expectations of capital appreciation in the housing market. We show that expectations impounded in … for cross-sectional differences in the quality of rental versus owner-occupied housing. We also demonstrate that observed …, we provide evidence consistent with euphoria: participants in housing markets appear to overreact to income growth …
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How can mortgages be redesigned to reduce housing market volatility, consumption volatility, and default? How does … aggregate shocks, long-term mortgages, and an equilibrium housing market, focusing on designs that index payments to monetary …-loading alleviates household liquidity constraints in states where they are most binding, reducing default and stimulating housing demand …
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Housing markets experience substantial price volatility, short term price change momentum and mean reversion of prices … bubble. In this paper, we review the stylized facts of housing bubbles and discuss theories that can potentially explain … housing market, such as intensive search and short selling constraints, to explain the stylized facts. Cheap credit provides a …
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mispricing in the housing market. We document that out-of-town second house buyers behaved like misinformed speculators and drove …
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agents have a lower probability of selling, and this effect is strongest during the housing bust. We then study the aggregate … implications of the distribution of agents' experience on housing market liquidity by building a dynamic entry and exit model of …
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foreign demand affects U.S. housing markets, and uses this demand shock to estimate local price elasticities of supply. Other … countries introduced foreign-buyer taxes meant to deter Chinese housing investment beginning in 2011. We first show house prices … reversing with the onset of the U.S.-China trade war. Second, we use international tax policy changes as a U.S. housing demand …
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