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property coming on the market and toward a physical externality as the source of measured foreclosure externalities …. A foreclosure in the same association and at the same address depresses the sale price by 2.5 percent, but properties in …
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We provide novel estimates of the timing, magnitudes, and potential determinants of the start of the last housing boom across American neighborhoods and metropolitan areas (MSAs) using a rich new micro data set containing 23 million housing transactions in 94 metropolitan areas between 1993 and...
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Using individual-level data on homeowner debt and defaults from 1997 to 2008, we show that borrowing against the increase in home equity by existing homeowners is responsible for a significant fraction of both the sharp rise in U.S. household leverage from 2002 to 2006 and the increase in...
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This chapter reviews empirical estimates of differential income and consumption growth across individuals during recessions. Most existing studies examine the variation in income and consumption growth across individuals by sorting on ex ante or contemporaneous income or consumption levels. We...
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and PSM), foreclosure causes housing instability, reduced homeownership, and financial distress. For marginal homeowners …How costly is foreclosure? Estimates of the social cost of foreclosure typically focus on financial costs. Using random … evidence of significant non-pecuniary costs of foreclosure, particularly for foreclosed-upon homeowners. For all homeowners (IV …
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We study equilibrium outcomes in markets with asymmetric information about asset values among both buyers and sellers. In residential real estate markets hard-to-observe neighborhood characteristics are a key source of information heterogeneity: sellers are usually better informed about...
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This paper isolates the causal impact of neighborhood environment on credit outcomes of low-income borrowers by analyzing the participants of the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment. MTO was a unique, large-scale experiment that offered families vouchers to move to better neighborhoods via...
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We develop and estimate a unified model of house prices, loan-to-value ratios (LTVs), and trade and foreclosure … property and produce selection-corrected estimates of historical LTVs and foreclosure behavior, both showing large …
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bust and to analyze foreclosure mitigation policy. We consider a dynamic search model in which foreclosures freeze the … the model fit both national and cross-sectional moments better than a model without foreclosure. When calibrated to the …
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. Comparing zip codes close to state borders with differing foreclosure laws, we show that foreclosure propensity and housing … scores, income, or education levels. The increase in foreclosure rates in non-judicial states persists for at least five …
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