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Home Ownership and Monetary Policy Transmission

Koeniger, Winfried - 2019

We present empirical evidence on the heterogeneity in monetary policy transmission across countries with different home ownership rates. We use household-level data together with shocks to the policy rate identified from high-frequency data. We find that housing tenure reacts more strongly to...

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Intratemporal Nonseparability between Housing and Nondurable Consumption : Evidence from Reinvestment in Housing Stock

Khorunzhina, Natalia - 2019

Using the data on maintenance expenditures and self-assessed house value, I separate the measure of individual housing stock and house prices, and use these data for testing whether nondurable consumption and housing are characterized by intratemporal nonseparability in households' preferences....

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The Long-Run Effects of Neighborhood Change on Incumbent Families

Baum-Snow, Nathaniel - 2019

A number of prominent studies examine the long-run effects of neighborhood attributes on children by leveraging variation in neighborhood exposure through household moves. How-ever, much neighborhood change comes in place rather than through moving. Using an urban economic geography model as a...

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Higher Education Supply, Neighbourhood Effects and Economic Welfare

Cottini, Elena - 2019

This paper uses an own built dataset on the history of universities in Italy during 1861-2010 to estimate neighbourhood …

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Free Neighborhood Choice Boosts Socially Optimal Outcomes in Stag-Hunt Coordination Problem

Riedl, Arno; Rohde, Ingrid M. T.; Strobel, Martin - 2021

Situations where independent agents need to align their activities to achieve individually and socially beneficial outcomes are abundant, reaching from everyday situations like fixing a time for a meeting to global problems like climate change agreements. Often such situations can be described...

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Explaining spatial variation in homeownership rates: Results for German regions

Lerbs, Oliver; Oberst, Christian - 2011

A wide range of aggregate data is used to examine the spatial variation in homeownership rates among a cross-section of … spatial dependence in homeownership levels. In addition to familiar demographic and socioeconomic variables, the regional … disparities in homeownership rates between eastern and western Germany as well as between rural, urbanized and agglomerated …

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Pensions, Income Taxes and Homeownership : A Cross-Country Analysis

Fehr, Hans; Hofmann, Maurice; Kudrna, George - 2021

This paper studies the role of pensions and income taxes in determining homeownership and household wealth. It provides … have similar incomes per capita but very different homeownership rates, with the US and Australia having much higher … homeownership compared to Germany. The question is to what extent the observed differences in homeownership are induced by national …

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Homes Incorporated : Offshore Ownership of Real Estate in the U.K

Johannesen, Niels; Miethe, Jakob; Weishaar, Daniel - 2022

Ownership of real estate through corporations in offshore tax havens creates opportunities for tax evasion and money laundering and may have undesirable effects in housing markets. In this paper, we study offshore ownership of real estate in the United Kingdom by combining several data sources:...

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How Does For-Profit College Attendance Affect Student Loans, Defaults and Labor Market Outcomes?

Armona, Luis - 2019

For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend for-profit institutions take on more educational debt, have worse labor market outcomes, and are more likely to default than students attending similarly-selective public...

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Debt Moratoria : Evidence from Student Loan Forbearance

Dinerstein, Michael; Yannelis, Constantine; Chen, Ching-Tse - 2023

We evaluate the effects of the 2020 student debt moratorium that paused payments for student loan borrowers. Using administrative credit panel data, we show that the payment pause led to a sharp drop in student loan payments and delinquencies for borrowers subject to the debt moratorium, as well...

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