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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...
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mortgage crisis, which, in contrast to the preceding housing boom, was not accompanied by a rise in homeownership rates. Using … declines in the homeownership rates …
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This paper investigates the dynamics of financial vulnerability of indebted homeowners over the housing cycle with an agent-based housing market model. The model is calibrated using UK micro data. I find that financial vulnerability is driven by previous period house purchases and by dissaving...
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of roommates. Coupledom, however, appears stable. Homeownership at age thirty shows a precipitous drop following the …
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prices on expenditure is entirely driven by home-equity extraction. Our results indicate that the mortgage system plays an …
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In this paper we examine whether changes in home values drive mortgage-based equity extraction. To do this we use … information about mortgage borrowing as well as savings in various financial instruments. We find that the marginal propensity to … increase mortgage debt is 2-5 percent of unanticipated home value gains. We find no adjustment to other components of the …
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This research investigated the relationship between increasing housing prices (or housing wealth) and the increased consumption expenditure of households from before the GFC and afterwards. The analysis revealed that following the GFC, old and middle-aged households showing slightly lower...
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We use a linked housing transaction dataset and a personal bankruptcy dataset to study the impact of housing credit on personal bankruptcy in Singapore. Using a difference-in-differences (DD) approach, we find that an increase in housing credit increases the monthly instalment by 560-900...
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) using the quarterly U.S. residential mortgage loan-level data observed from Q2 2005 to Q1 2015. We define defaulted loans … separate cure and non-cure loans in mortgage loss risk models …
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From 2007 to 2009 U.S. house prices plunged and mortgage defaults surged. While ostensibly consistent with widespread … “ruthless default,” analysis of detailed mortgage and house price data indicates that borrowers do not walk away until they are …
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