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The Housing Provident Fund (HPF) is the largest public housing program in China. It was created in 1999 to enhance homeownership. This program involves a mandatory saving scheme based on labor income. Past deposits are refunded when the worker purchases a house or retires. Moreover, the program...
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For most households, home ownership is the largest wealth component that has become more accessible through innovation and deregulation in mortgage markets. This paper studies the factors driving home equity withdrawal (HEW) at the household level using Dutch survey data. In the Netherlands,...
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the New Keynesian Phillips Curve (NKPC), taking oil price shock as a variable of interest, and introducing variables such … as lagged inflation expectations, inflation rate, GDP and EPU, we find that the positive impact of oil price shock on U …. There is also sufficient evidence that oil price shock has asymmetric effects on inflation expectations in both countries …
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We propose a two-step approach to estimate multi-dimensional monetary policy shocks and their causal effects requiring only daily financial market data and policy events. First, we combine a heteroscedasticity-based identification scheme with recursive zero restrictions along the term structure...
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We extend the Carlstrom and Fuerst (1997) agency cost model of business cycles by including time varying uncertainty in the technology shocks that affect capital production. We first demonstrate that standard linearization methods can be used to solve the model yet second moment effects still...
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accelerator model, time varying risk shocks, and a zero lower bound on the nominal interest rate. The amplification mechanism … results from a portfolio re-balancing from households, who reduce capital investment in favor of risk-free bonds. Consequently …
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We propose a new housing portfolio channel through which QE affects output. In response to QE, intermediaries rebalance portfolios from bonds to houses, lowering the return to saving and stimulating consumption and output. We study this channel empirically in a German housing boom without credit...
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uncertainty shock with respect to economies with stricter regulations. Using additional labor ow data from Germany, France and UK …
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