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This paper discusses findings relative to the impact of borrowing constraints on homeownership in the U.S. in the … aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. While homeownership declines and tightened credit are evident, the role the tightening …. The homeownership rate in 2010-2013 is simulated to be 2.3 percentage points lower than if the constraints were set at the …
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I show that individuals whose unemployment risk tends to increase more when local home prices fall optimally invest less in owner-occupied housing. Using a unique, Swedish register-based database, I find that a one standard deviation increase in the covariance between individually estimated...
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Over the course of the recent house price bubble in the United States, the price of homes rose rapidly from 1999 Q4 to 2005 Q4 (11.3% annually as measured by the Case-Shiller index, and 8.4% annually as measured by the Federal Housing Financing Agency) but slowly as measured by owner equivalent...
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For modern nations, it is recognized as important that temporal and spatial variations in costs for comparable dwelling services are carefully measured. The costs of owner occupied as well as rental housing have important roles to play in both the consumer price index (CPI) and the System of...
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This paper identifies for the first time the impact of borrowing constraints in the recent decline in homeownership … constraints on homeownership outcomes over time. It has been established that credit supply loosened during the 2004-07 period and … then became considerably more restricted in the wake of the Great Recession. Homeownership has also declined. However, the …
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Using Danish register data we observe that, for households living in rental housing, the housing expenditure share is negatively correlated with income, positively correlated with rent per squared meter, and displays significant cross sectional dispersion. We find that the life cycle model...
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matches the wealth distribution; the age profiles of consumption, homeownership, and mortgage debt; and data on the frequency … maximum borrowing limit, and housing investment, homeownership, and household debt closely track aggregate productivity. In …
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wealth distribution, the age profiles of homeownership and mortgage debt, and the frequency of housing adjustment. In the …
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matches the wealth distribution; the age profiles of consumption, home-ownership, and mortgage debt; and data on the frequency … borrowing limit, and housing investment, home-ownership, and household debt closely track aggregate productivity. In the late …
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homeownership, residential mobility, and welfare in the Netherlands. A revenue-neutral abolition of the 2% transfer tax increases … homeownership rate by 1-5 percentage points (depending on how revenue neutrality is achieved). Newborns prefer to live in an economy …
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