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Mortgage market maturity and homeownership inequality among young households: a five-country perspective
Bicakova, Alena; Sierminska, Eva M. - 2008
This paper uses the newly constructed Luxembourg Wealth Study data to document cross-country variation in homeownership rates and the homeownership-income inequality among young households in Finland, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, and relate it to cross-country differences in mortgage...
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Wohnungswirtschaft im Wandel: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen öffentlicher Finanzierung in der Wohnraumversorgung
Heitel, Stephanie; Lohse, Moritz; Zahn, Michael; … - 2011
Die Wohnungswirtschaft steht vor großen Herausforderungen, die insbesondere durch den stattfindenden sozio-demografischen Wandel sowie durch Anforderungen im Rahmen des Klimaschutzes verursacht werden. Um die Zukunftsfähigkeit der Wohnungswirtschaft und ihrer Wohnungsbestände sicherzustellen...
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Genügend Widerstandskraft? Immobilienfinanzierung und Haushaltsverschuldung in Deutschland, Großbritannien, den Niederlanden und den USA
Badunenko, Oleg; Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 78 (2009) 1, pp. 127-142
Die vorliegende Studie zielt auf die Einschätzung der ökonomischen Stabilität der Haushalte in Deutschland ab … Haushaltsdaten die wirtschaftliche und finanzielle Situation der privaten Haushalte in Deutschland, Großbritannien, den Niederlanden …, so stellen sich die Haushalte in Deutschland tendenziell widerstandsfähiger dar als die Haushalte in den …
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Financial Markets, Judicial Costs and Housing Tenure: An International Comparison
Chiuri, Maria Concetta; Jappelli, Tullio - 2000
This paper explores the determinants of international patterns of housing tenure choice. Up to now, no study has carried out an international comparison in housing tenure using household level data. The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) provides microeconomic data on fourteen OECD countries. In most...
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Vertragliche Vereinbarungen als Instrument der Wirtschaftspolitik am Beispiel des Altschuldenkompromisses in der ostdeutschen Wohnungswirtschaft
Sander, Birgit - 1997
Relational contracts when employed as a tool of economic policy create mutual dependency between State and enterprises. This bluntly contradicts the principles of „Ordnungspolitik" as the key policy device to ensure efficiency on the microeconomic level and growth on the macroeconomic level....
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Strategisches Nachverhandeln zur Lösung von Anreizproblemen in unvollständigen Verträgen am Beispiel der Wohnungsprivatisierung nach dem Altschuldenhilfegesetz
Sander, Birgit - 1998
Governments may draft contracts with market agents for allocating subsidies and pursuing specific policy goals. Contract enforcement via binding commitments is difficult, however, when exogenous (environmental) and endogenous (behavioural) risks interact. Analyzing the old debt compromise in...
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On the demand for grandchildren : tied transfers and the demonstration effect
Cox, Donald; Stark, Oded - 2004
It is argued that parents provide help with housing downpayments in order to encourage the production of grandchildren, and that such a subsidization emanates from the ?demonstration effect:? a child?s propensity to furnish parents with attention and care can be conditioned by parental example....
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Systemic risk in the financial sector: an analysis of the subprime-mortgage financial crisis
Hellwig, Martin - 2008
The paper analyses the causes of the current crisis of the global financial system, with particular emphasis on the systemic elements that turned the crisis of subprime mortgage-backed securities in the United States, a small part of the overall system, into a worldwide crisis. The first half of...
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Mortgage finance in Central and Eastern Europe: opportunity or burden?
Beck, Thorsten; Kibuuka, Katie; Tiongson, Erwin - 2010
Household credit, especially for mortgages, has doubled over the past years in the new European Union member countries, raising concerns about the economic and social consequences of household indebtedness in the event of a macroeconomic crisis. Using household survey data for 2005, 2006, and...
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Federal home loan bank advances and commercial bank portfolio composition
Frame, W. Scott; Hancock, Diana; Passmore, Wayne - 2007
This paper considers the role of Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) advances in stabilizing their commercial bank members' residential mortgage lending activities. Our theoretical model shows that using mortgage-related membership criteria or requiring mortgage-related collateral does not ensure that...
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