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identify behavioural and Minskyan theories of housing cycles as suitable frameworks to theorise the impact of housing on growth …. However, this literature does not provide an analysis of cross-country differences in housing cycles. Third, drawing on the … CPE literature on housing systems, we argue that institutions such as homeownership rates and mortgage-credit encouraging …
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This paper investigates the US housing market from just before the Great Recession onward (2006-19) and assesses the … from the housing slump sooner, faster, and more prominently than slower sales. The simulated stock-flow matching model can …, indicating the importance of stock-flow matching for understanding housing market dynamics. …
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Despite the prevalence and high cost of real estate agents, there is limited empirical evidence as to the nature or efficacy of their services. In this paper we estimate real estate agents' value-added when either selling or buying homes using data from three large multiple listing services...
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common component in the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s house price movements from state- or region …
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housing is accepted as collateral. A calibration to the U.S. economy supports the theoretical results and provides novel …
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Housing markets of large cities around the world, particularly in so-called developing and emerging countries, are … housing. On the other hand, international real estate investment, particularly in the upper market segment, is strong. The … resulting mismatch of housing demand and supply increases segregation, marginalises the vulnerable and leads to massive urban …
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Do behavioral biases a affect prices in a high-stake market? We study the role of left digit bias in the purchase of an apartment, one of the most important assets in a household's portfolio. Left-digit bias is the inability to fully process digits after the first, perceiving prices just below a...
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I study a directed search model of oligopolistic competition, extended to incorporate general capacity constraints, congestion effects, and pricing based on ex-post realized demand. I show that as long as any one of these ingredients is present, the Bertrand paradox will fail to hold. Hence, I...
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In many search models of the labor market, unemployment insurance (UI) is conveniently interpreted as the value of leisure or home production and is, therefore, treated as a parameter. However, in reality, UI has to be funded through taxation that might be distortionary. In this paper, I analyze...
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I consider a model of directed search in which strategic sellers advertise general trading mechanisms. A mechanism determines the number of buyers that will get served and the side payments as a function of ex post realized demand. After observing these advertisements buyers simultaneously visit...
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