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in areas that experienced the sharpest housing busts. A lowering of the housing supply elasticity implies a strengthened …
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especially pronounced at very low real interest rates. Most existing empirical studies estimate models with a constant semi-elasticity … estimate a panel model for the euro area countries with a constant interest rate elasticity (as opposed to a constant semi-elasticity …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare responses of house prices in three important markets when faced with permanent and temporary shocks to income. It additionally decomposes each historical house price series into its permanent, temporary and deterministic components....
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The study estimates the housing supply elasticity and the impact of geographic constraints in Germany from 2008 … elasticity of 0.22 and a units elasticity of 0.25. The study also reveals that geographical constraints partially affect the … housing supply elasticity across districts. Notably, high development intensity decreases the elasticity, while the …
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The seminal Barro (2006) closed-economy model of the equity risk premium in the presence of extreme events ("disasters") allowed for leverage in the form of risky corporate debt which defaulted only in states when the Government defaulted on its debt. The probability of default was therefore...
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We introduce a Nelson-Siegel type interest rate term structure model with the underlying yield factors following autoregressive processes revealing time-varying stochastic volatility. The factor volatilities capture risk inherent to the term struc- ture and are associated with the time-varying...
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We investigate how the introduction of market-based pricing, the practice of tying loan interest rates to credit default swaps, has affected bank financing. We find that market-based pricing is associated with lower interest rates, both at origination and during the life of the loan. Our results...
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It is well recognised that the issue of the social rate of discount applies only to the gains from public investment that accrues to the public sector. When it comes to measurement, however, there is a problem: public investment in infrastructure and the like do not usually yield direct...
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