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After rising for a decade, the U.S. homeownership rate peaked at 69 percent in the third quarter of 2006. Over the next two and a half years, as home prices fell in many parts of the country and the unemployment rate rose sharply, the homeownership rate declined by 1.7 percentage points. An...
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This paper shows, using data from the Family Income and Expenditure Survey, that housing credit has become increasingly available over time in Japan, especially since 2000, and that this has made it easier for Japanese households to purchase housing and enabled them to do so at an earlier age....
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paper we study the effect of this developmenton the demand for second mortgages and on the savings of Dutch households. We … investigatethe effect of house prices on (i) the number and size of second mortgages, (ii) the savingsof owner-occupiers and (iii … for second mortgages.Savings of homeowners decrease when house prices accelerate. We find no evidence that inc …
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Borrowers' housing equity is an important component of their wealth and a critical determinant of their vulnerability to shocks. In this paper, we create a unique data set that allows us to provide a comprehensive look at the ratio of housing debt to housing values - what we refer to as...
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with search in the housing market and defaultable long-term mortgages. In equilibrium, both sellers' asking prices and time …-to-sell increase with the relative size of their outstanding mortgages. In turn, the liquidity of the housing market associated with …
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