Homeownership rates differ widely across European countries. We document that part of this variation is driven by … homeownership rates per household, homeownership rates per individual are very similar during the first part of the life cycle. To … consumption-saving and housing tenure decisions. We embed an explicit intergenerational link between children and parents to …

Homeownership rates differ widely across European countries. We document that part of this variation is driven by … homeownership rates per household, homeownership rates per individual are very similar during the first part of the life cycle. To … consumption-saving and housing tenure decisions. We embed an explicit intergenerational link between children and parents to …

Homeownership rates differ widely across European countries. We document that part of this variation is driven by … homeownership rates per household, homeownership rates per individual are very similar during the first part of the life cycle. To … consumption-saving and housing tenure decisions. We embed an explicit intergenerational link between children and parents to …

Homeownership rates differ widely across European countries. We document that part of this variation is driven by … homeownership rates per household, homeownership rates per individual are very similar during the first part of the life cycle. To … consumption-saving and housing tenure decisions. We embed an explicit intergenerational link between children and parents to …

to account for anticipation effects on consumption. We investigate this using high-frequency spending and balance sheet … with a standard buffer-stock consumption model, and implies that it is less effective to target stimulus to low liquidity …

The homeownership rate in Germany is one of the lowest among advanced economies. To better understand this fact, we … evaluate the role of specific housing policies which tend to discourage homeownership. In comparison to other countries with … higher homeownership such as the United States, Germany has an extensive social housing sector with broad eligibility …

The homeownership rate in Germany is one of the lowest among advanced economies. To better understand this fact, we … analyze the role of three specific policies which discourage homeownership in Germany: an extensive social housing sector with … payments by owner-occupiers. We build a lifecycle model with uninsurable income risk and endogenous homeownership in order to …

homeownership. In this paper we use property-level data to estimate the effect of government mortgage guarantees on homeownership … government guarantees, but find no robust effect on homeownership. This finding suggests that government guarantees could be … considerably reduced with modest effects on homeownership, which is relevant for housing finance reform plans that propose to …

Much of the literature on the effect of housing wealth on consumption has been embedded in a simple life-cycle model in … changes in consumption. However, this might constitute a fallacy of composition. Such models ignore that changes in housing … the classic Ando-Modigliani consumption function augmented by housing wealth can be deduced. It is shown that the deeper …