Ten years after the mortgage crisis, the U.S. housing market has rebounded significantly with house prices now near the peak achieved during the boom. Homeownership rates, on the other hand, have continued to decline. We reconcile the two phenomena by documenting the rising presence of...

We study the house price recovery in the U.S. single-family residential housing market since the outbreak of the mortgage crisis, which, in contrast to the preceding housing boom, was not accompanied by a rise in homeownership rates. Using comprehensive property-level transaction data, we show...

This paper addresses the question of whether and how easy monetary policy may lead to excesses in financial and real asset markets and ultimately result in financial dislocation. It presents evidence suggesting that periods when short-term interest rates have been persistently and significantly...

Die Verbriefung, also die Finanzierung von Krediten über den Kapitalmarkt, hat in den letzten Jahren deutlich an Bedeutung gewonnen. Die Subprime-Krise zeigt jedoch deren Mängel auf. Da die Immobilienfinanzierer das Risiko aus der Kreditvergabe an den Kapitalmarkt weitergeben konnten, wurden...