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This paper analyses local labour and hosuing market adjustment in New Zealand from 1989 to 2006. We use a VAR approach to examine the adjustment of employment, employment rate, participation rate, wages, and house prices in response to employment shocks. Migration is a major adjustment response...
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Using data for 70 U.S. metropolitan areas, this study explores spatial heterogeneity in house price dynamics. We use recent advances in panel econometrics that allow for spatial heterogeneity, cross-sectional dependence, and non-stationary but cointegrated data. We test for spatial differences...
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Explaining asset price booms poses a difficult question for researchers in macroeconomics: how can large and persistent price growth be explained in the absence large and persistent variation in fundamentals? This paper argues that boom-bust behavior in asset prices can be explained by a model...
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housing bubbles.Between 2000 and the bubble's peak, inflation- adjusted housing prices in California and Florida more than …,000 people per year.This suggests that local factors, not national policies, were a necessary condition for the housing bubbles …
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's largest cities. One interpretation of our results is that stochastic, rational bubbles were a feature of Australia's major … in Australia's housing markets, there is little evidence that what might be identified as house price bubbles had any …
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Borrowers in states with non-recourse mortgage law face limited liability on their mortgage loans. We show that non-recourse law causes larger swings in housing prices by encouraging speculative investments when housing markets are in a boom cycle. We find that mortgage lending pricing does not...
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Explaining asset price booms poses a difficult question for researchers in macroeconomics: how can large and persistent price growth be explained in the absence large and persistent variation in fundamentals? This paper argues that boom-bust behavior in asset prices can be explained by a model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210456
We introduce a novel quantitative methodology to detect real estate bubbles and forecast their critical end time, which … calibration with respect to bootstrapped residuals. We make three main contributions to the literature of real estate bubbles … critical times of historical housing price bubbles in the U.S., Hong Kong, U.K. and Canada. Second, the LPPLS detection methods …
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capital may flow disproportionately into real estate and help generate real estate bubbles. The preference of banks for more … fungible real estate assets also explains why real estate is so often the source of a financial crisis. Real estate bubbles can … modest benefits of extra building.The benefits of real estate bubbles are welfare “triangles,” while the costs of widespread …
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We study the joint evolution of prices and rents of residential property. After constructing rent and price indices for renter- and owner-occupied properties, we decompose the change in the price of occupant-owned property into (1) changes in rent, (2) changes in the relative prices of investor-...
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