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Can Owning a Home Hedge the Risk of Moving?
Sinai, Todd M. - 2011
Conventional wisdom holds that one of the riskiest aspects of owning a house is the uncertainty surrounding its sale price, especially if one moves to another housing market. However, households who sell a house typically buy another house, whose purchase price is also uncertain. We show that...
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Does Home Owning Smooth the Variability of Future Housing Consumption?
Paciorek, Andrew - 2012
We show that the hedging benefit of owning a home reduces the variability of housing consumption after a move. When a current home owner's house price covaries positively with housing costs in a future city, changes in the future cost of housing are offset by commensurate changes in wealth...
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Homeownership, Polarization, and Inequality
Parkhomenko, Andrii - 2021
In recent decades, the U.S. labor market has become more unequal and polarized: wage differences have widened and middle-income jobs have been replaced by low- and high-income jobs. The rise in inequality and polarization have been more pronounced in large cities. I argue that this can be...
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Housing and inequality : the case of Luxembourg and its cross-border workers
Claveres, Guillaume; Mathä, Thomas; Pulina, Giuseppe; … - 2020
The rate of homeownership is close to the OECD average in Luxembourg. However, strong house price increases, mainly …
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"We'll always have Paris" : out-of-country buyers in the housing market
Cvijanovic, Dragana; Spaenjers, Christophe - 2018
Previous research has shown that non-local household investors make sub-optimal asset selection and market timing decisions. However, in real estate markets, heterogeneity in returns can exist even with identical ex ante investment (timing) choices, given that transaction prices are the outcome...
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The effect of the Theo van Gogh murder on house prices in Amsterdam
Gautier, Pieter; Siegmann, Adriaan Hendrik; Vuuren, Aico van - 2007
This paper estimates the impact of the murder of film maker Theo vanGogh on November 2, 2004, on listed house prices in Amsterdam with aunique dataset. We use an hedonic-market approach to show that gen-eral attitudes towards Muslim minorities were negatively affected by themurder. Specifically,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350359
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Housing inequality in the United States : a decomposition analysis of racial and ethnic disparities in homeownership
DeSilva, Sanjaya; Elmelech, Yuval - 2009
In recent years, as the homeownership rate in the United States reached its highest level in history, homeownership … Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) and 2006 American Community Survey (ACS) to study the trajectory into homeownership of … homeownership. The unique (merged) dataset enables the authors to distinguish assimilation (length of residence) from immigration …
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Housing Inequality in the United States : A Decomposition Analysis of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Homeownership
DeSilva, Sanjaya; Elmelech, Yuval - 2015
In recent years, as the homeownership rate in the United States reached its highest level in history, homeownership … Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) and 2006 American Community Survey (ACS) to study the trajectory into homeownership of … homeownership. The unique (merged) dataset enables the authors to distinguish assimilation (length of residence) from immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014207625
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The Effect of the Theo van Gogh Murder on House Prices in Amsterdam
Gautier, Pieter A.; Siegmann, Arjen; van Vuuren, Aico - 2007
This paper estimates the impact of the murder of film maker Theo vanGogh on November 2, 2004, on listed house prices in Amsterdam with aunique dataset. We use an hedonic-market approach to show that gen-eral attitudes towards Muslim minorities were negatively affected by themurder. Specifically,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325456
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Housing inequality in the United States: a decomposition analysis of racial and ethnic disparities in homeownership
DeSilva, Sanjaya; Elmelech, Yuval - 2009
In recent years, as the homeownership rate in the United States reached its highest level in history, homeownership … Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) and 2006 American Community Survey (ACS) to study the trajectory into homeownership of … homeownership. The unique (merged) dataset enables the authors to distinguish assimilation (length of residence) from immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266598