Chaney, Sraer, and Thesmar (2012) suggests that “shocks to the value of real estate [collateral] can have a large impact on aggregate [corporate] investment.” My comment shows that their reported coefficient estimates are spurious. They explain variation in their normalizing denominators...

Until recently, the literature ignored the interactions between housing and macroeconomics. Thanks to many researchers' contributions, the macro-housing field is in development. This review complements previous research and highlights a few areas that have made significant progress lately. They...

We study the effects of news about sea level rise on housing markets. We exploit a natural experiment in Spain. In 2014 Greenpeace published an alarming report predicting catastrophic consequences for La Manga, a tourist peninsula. The report was widely cited in the local news. We find that the...