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Housing, Financial and Capital Taxation Policies to Ensure Robust Growth in Sweden
McGowan, Muge Adalet - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
Extensive structural reforms since the early 1990s have strengthened the resilience of the Swedish economy to shocks. However, more needs to be done to better manage near-term risks and ensure that growth remains sustainable in the longer run. Reforming the housing market would reduce the risks...
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Mortgage Supply and Housing Rents
Gete, Pedro - 2019
We show that a contraction of mortgage supply after the Great Recession has increased housing rents. Our empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012903460
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Real Rate Inflation-Indexed Mortgages : A Housing Market Stabilization Proposal
Barrull, Xavier - 2011
The most frequent mortgage loans in the US behave according to nominal interest rates with level loan payments (NRMs … increase of real payments in the early years of the mortgage due to higher inflation (Lessard and Modigliani, 1975), causes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131594
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The housing market and housing policies in Japan
Kobayashi, Masahiro - 2016
Housing policies in Japan after World War II were focused on the quantitative supply of houses with a wide range of targeted groups and public rental houses. The Japan Housing Corporation (now the Urban Renaissance Agency) and the Government Housing Loan Corporation (now the Japan Housing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441128
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Exploring affordability in the Irish housing market
Corrigan, Eoin; Foley, Daniel; McQuinn, Kieran; … - 2018
This paper examines housing affordability in Ireland by looking at the distribution of housing costs across households. Using microdata from the SILC survey over the period 2005-2015, the contribution of this paper is threefold. First, the paper considers the trends in the cost of housing in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011862979
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Institutional investors and the U.S. housing recovery
Lambie-Hanson, Lauren; Li, Wenli; Slonkosky, Michael - 2019
mortgage crisis, which, in contrast to the preceding housing boom, was not accompanied by a rise in homeownership rates. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012197788
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Mortgage Market, Housing Tenure Choice and Unemployment
Lisi, Gaetano - 2016
search and matching model where trading frictions in the mortgage, housing and labour markets interact with each other …. Precisely, the employment status affects the probability to get a mortgage. In turn, the granting or not of the mortgage affects … greater chance of getting a mortgage to buy a home. As a result, the positive correlation between the homeownership and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981831
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Mortgage borrowing limits and house prices : evidence from a policy change in Ireland
Higgins, Brian E. - 2024
This paper studies how mortgage borrowers and house prices react to a tightening of mortgage limits following a policy … leverage (LTV) of the mortgage. Using a difference-in-difference methodology, I find that groups of (poorer) borrowers, who …-to-value threshold, responded primarily by reducing the LTV of the mortgage. Borrowers who purchase cheaper houses could be buying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014490418
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Housing price and investment dynamics in Finland
André, Christophe; García, Clara - 2012
The Finnish housing market is volatile. After declining significantly as the global financial crisis unfolded, housing prices and investment recovered to reach new peaks. This paper uses a small econometric model to assess the role of fundamentals in housing price and investment developments....
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A revival of the private rental sector of the housing market? : lessons from Germany, Finland, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands
Boer, Rik de; Bitetti, Rosamaria - 2014
This Working Paper studies ways to stimulate the private rental sector (PRS) of the housing market – and compares experiences with policies and reforms in Germany, the Netherlands, Finland and the Czech Republic. Although in many countries the PRS has decreased in importance since the Second...
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