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general equilibrium housing model and find that these three factors together account for over half of the increase in house … due to higher demand for mortgage loans. This increases households’ savings in financial assets and leaves their housing … their wealth from financial assets to housing assets, which dramatically drives up house prices. …
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In this paper, we build a dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model with housing and household debt, and compare the … effectiveness of monetary policy, housing-related fiscal policy, and macroprudential regulations in reducing household indebtedness …
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case study based on the Canadian housing market is presented. …
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We investigate whether expectations that are not fully rational have the potential to explain the evolution of house prices and the price-to-rent ratio in the United States. First,a Lucas type asset-pricing model solved under rational expectations is used to derive a fundamental value for house...
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The author proposes and evaluates econometric models that try to explain and forecast real quarterly housing … expenditures in Canada. Structural and leading-indicator models of the Canadian housing sector are described. The long … changes have occurred in how the housing market is driven. The author finds that the response of housing investment to …
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In this paper, we investigate the effects of housing-related tax policy measures on macroeconomic aggregates using a … frictions in the form of collateral constraints tied to house prices, and a rental housing market alongside owner …-occupied housing. Using our model, we analyze the effects of changes in housing-related tax policy measures on the level of output, tax …
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This paper is a user' guide to a set of Guss procedures developed at the Bank of Canada for estimating regime-switching models. The procedure can estimate relatively quickly a wide variety of switching models and so should prove useful to the applied researchers. Sample program listings are...
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Since the work of Doepke and Schneider (2006a) and Meh and Terajima (2008), we know that inflation causes major redistribution of wealth - between households and the government, between nationals and foreigners, and between households within the same country. Two types of monetary policy,...
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In this paper we develop a quantitative model of entrepreneurial activity (risk-taking) and consumer bankruptcy choices and use the model to study the effects of bankruptcy regulations on entrepreneurial activity, bankruptcy rate and welfare. We show that eliminating bankruptcy exemptions leads...
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