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This study reexamines the price effects of age restriction on housing prices. Our data cover a period when the housing market is taking a steep downturn. We argue that, when housing prices are falling, seniors are more likely to avoid investing in housing for at least two reasons. First, seniors...
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-managed property prices. The risk factor used here is the US real estate index, which has much stronger explanatory power than the S … East Coast or West Coast cities have negative risk-adjusted returns (alpha), while a portfolio of all inland cities has … positive alpha. Second, a momentum strategy does not outperform the US real estate index on a transaction and risk …
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This paper seeks to determine whether analyst consensus is a function of the level of price informativeness, and therefore attempts to gauge the extent to which analyst consensus is high when market uncertainty is high. There is the view that a small or declining volume of trading implies less...
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What risks do asset price bubbles pose for the economy? This paper studies bubbles in housing and equity markets in 17 countries over the past 140 years. History shows that not all bubbles are alike. Some have enormous costs for the economy, while others blow over. We demonstrate that what makes...
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This paper studies the role of time-varying risk premia as a channel for generating and propagating fluctuations in … driven by changing risk premia, which fluctuate endogenously in response to cyclical shocks, the financial market …
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This paper studies the role of time-varying risk premia as a channel for generating and propagating fluctuations in … driven by changing risk premia, which fluctuate endogenously in response to cyclical shocks, the financial market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038446
previously considered in existing quantitative macro studies of housing finance: aggregate business cycle risk, and a realistic …, the boom in house prices is entirely the result of a decline in the housing risk premium. Third, low interest rates cannot …
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considered in existing quantitative macro studies of housing finance: aggregate business cycle risk, and a realistic wealth … prices is entirely the result of a decline in the housing risk premium. Third, low interest rates cannot explain high home …
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review indicates that the FHA will not need any form of government support. We identify four risk factors that make such a … accuracy of FHA risk assessment …
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, and near-frictionless refinancing opportunities---led to vastly increased systemic risk in the financial system …
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