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Household debt and house prices in the United Kingdom rose substantially between 1987 and 2006. In this paper we use a … calibrated overlapping generations model of the household sector to examine the extent to which changes in demographics, lower …
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We represent the functioning of the housing market and study the relation between income segregation, income inequality and house prices by introducing a spatial Agent-Based Model (ABM). Differently from traditional models in urban economics, we explicitly specify the behavior of buyers and...
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The purpose of this chapter is to survey recent research on housing markets and policy in what used to be called the “second” and “third” worlds. We adopt the labels “transition” economies to refer to countries as disparate as Russia and Vietnam, and “developing” to refer to...
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This paper explores the pricing of heterogeneous goods in the presence of market segmentation. We use housing as an example. We extend the theoretical hedonic model of Rosen (1974) and show that, in the presence of market segmentation, the hedonic price line is no longer continuous or unique....
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fluctuations in household wealth have driven major swings in economic activity. This paper considers so-called wealth effects - the … impact of changes in wealth on household consumption and the overall macroeconomy. There is an extensive existing literature …
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This paper examines macroeconomic dynamics of household debt and housing prices. Drawing on Minsky's insights into … financial instability and cycles, our framework combines household debt dynamics with behavioral asset price dynamics in a … Keynesian macro model. We show that endogenous boom-bust cycles can emerge through the interaction between household debt and …
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