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We show that the hedging benefit of owning a home reduces the variability of housing consumption after a move. When a current home owner's house price covaries positively with housing costs in a future city, changes in the future cost of housing are offset by commensurate changes in wealth...
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important source of consumption risk as two thirds of households are involved in some level of agricultural production. For … South Africa, we focus on labor market risk proxied by transitions from formal employment to informal work or unemployment …
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Poverty is typically measured as insufficient yearly income or consumption. In practice, however, poverty is marked by seasonality, economic instability, and illiquidity across months. To capture within-year variability, we extend traditional poverty measures to include a temporal dimension....
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Während direkte Immobilieninvestments lang Zeit als renditeträchtig bei gleichzeitig begrenztem Risiko galten, führte …, sondern auch für das Risiko-Management bei Hypothekenfinanzierern sowie für wirtschaftspolitische Institutionen, Zentralbanken …
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matches the wealth distribution; the age profiles of consumption, homeownership, and mortgage debt; and data on the frequency … downpayment requirements? They distinguish between an early period, the 1950s though the 1970s, when household income risk was … relatively small and loan-to-value ratios were low, and a late period, the 1980s through today, with high household income risk …
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