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The Effect of Housing on Portfolio Choice
Chetty, Raj - 2010
divergence between the theory and data. First, it is critical to distinguish between home equity wealth and mortgage debt, as … mortgage debt that is orthogonal to unobserved determinants of portfolios. We estimate a model that permits home equity and … mortgage debt to have different effects on portfolio shares. We isolate plausibly exogenous variation in home equity and …
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Home Equity Insurance
Shiller, Robert J. - 1994
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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House Prices, Home Equity-Based Borrowing, and the U.S. Household Leverage Crisis
Mian, Atif R. - 2009
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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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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How Do Foreclosures Exacerbate Housing Downturns?
Guren, Adam M. - 2019
This paper uses a structural model to show that foreclosures played a crucial role in exacerbating the recent housing bust and to analyze foreclosure mitigation policy. We consider a dynamic search model in which foreclosures freeze the market for non-foreclosures and reduce price and sales...
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Mortgage Design in an Equilibrium Model of the Housing Market
Guren, Adam M. - 2018
mortgage design interact with monetary policy? We answer these questions using a quantitative equilibrium life cycle model with … policy. Designs that raise mortgage payments in booms and lower them in recessions do better than designs with fixed mortgage … concentrate them in recessions outperform designs that spread payment reductions over the life of the mortgage. Front …
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The Housing Market(s) of San Diego
Landvoigt, Tim - 2012
This paper uses an assignment model to understand the cross section of house prices within a metro area. Movers' demand for housing is derived from a lifecycle problem with credit market frictions. Equilibrium house prices adjust to assign houses that differ by quality to movers who differ by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460934
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Monetary and Fiscal Stimuli, Ownership Structure, and China's Housing Market
Deng, Yongheng - 2011
In the recent financial crisis, macroeconomic stimuli produced mixed results across developed economies. In contrast, China's stimulus boosted real GDP growth from an annualized 6.2% in the first quarter of 2009 trough to 11.9% in the first quarter of 2010. Amidst this phenomenal response, land...
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Daily Monetary Policy Shocks and the Delayed Response of New Home Sales
Hamilton, James D. - 2008
anticipations show up instantaneously in long-term mortgage rates. Although mortgage rates respond well before the Fed actually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464424
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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 … subsequent delinquency during the recent housing boom and Great Recession. We show that the mortgage expansion was shared across … mortgage expansion was especially pronounced in areas with increased house prices, and the speed at which houses turned over …
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