Using the data on maintenance expenditures and self-assessed house value, I separate the measure of individual housing … stock and house prices, and use these data for testing whether nondurable consumption and housing are characterized by … nondurable consumption and housing. I reach a similar conclusion for some separate consumption categories, such as food and …

accelerator of house prices and finds that over the period 2000-2008 the value of all housing transactions exceeded the aggregate … net growth of mortgages by 50%, indicating substantial equity financing. In one year, 2008, the value of aggregate housing …

looking at the effect of a reduction in the maximum loan-to-value (LTV) ratio on homeownership rates, house prices and housing … is initially loose, allowing households to lever up against the collateral value of their housing. A reduction in the LTV … is the fall in house prices and the greater is the rise in the share of constrained homeowners and housing wealth …

-sponsored enterprises. We construct a model with competitive housing and mortgage markets in which the government provides banks with … of this government subsidy of owner-occupied housing. Preliminary findings indicate that the subsidy leads to higher … equilibrium housing investment, higher mortgage default rates, and lower welfare. The welfare effects of this policy vary …

In this paper we develop a measure of current expenditures on housing services for owner-occupiers. Having such a … measuring inflation. From a theoretical perspective expenditures equal the shadow price of housing services (the marginal rate … of substitution between housing services and non-durable consumption) multiplied by the quantity of housing services …

Using the data on maintenance expenditures and self-assessed house value, I separate the measure of individual housing … stock and house prices, and use these data for testing whether nondurable consumption and housing are characterized by … nondurable consumption and housing. I reach a similar conclusion for some separate consumption categories, such as food and …

-sponsored enterprises. We construct a model with competitive housing and mortgage markets in which the government provides banks with … of this government subsidy of owner-occupied housing. Preliminary findings indicate that the subsidy leads to higher … equilibrium housing investment, higher mortgage default rates, and lower welfare. The welfare effects of this policy vary …

job search with liquid wealth accumulation and consumption of housing that can be rented, bought on credit, or sold. In … using NLSY data from 1978 until 2005. We find that more relaxed housing lending conditions, particularly lower downpayment …

The authors estimate a structural model of optimal life-cycle housing and consumption in the presence of realistic … labor income and house price uncertainties. The model postulates constant elasticity of substitution between housing service …-sectional and time-series household wealth and housing profiles from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics quite well and suggests an …

Supersedes Working Paper 09-7. We estimate a structural model of optimal life-cycle housing and nonhousing consumption … between housing service and nonhousing consumption and explicitly incorporates a housing adjustment cost. Our estimation fits … the cross-sectional and time-series household wealth and housing profiles from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1984 to …