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This paper investigates the relationship between home equity and household mobility. We first develop a simple theoretical model that suggests a non-unidirectional mobility-equity relationship. We test this hypothesis using a dataset from Florida that allows us to construct home equity measures...
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Highly productive economies require a flexible labor force with workers that move in accordance with the changing demand for goods and services. In times with falling housing prices, home owning workers' mobility may be hampered by a lock-in effect from low and negative equity. This paper...
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The homeownership rate in Germany is one of the lowest among advanced economies. To better understand this fact, we … analyze the role of three specific policies which discourage homeownership in Germany: an extensive social housing sector with … payments by owner-occupiers. We build a lifecycle model with uninsurable income risk and endogenous homeownership in order to …
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This paper studies the role of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) in the recent US housing boom-bust cycle. Using a difference-in-differences matching estimation, I find that the enhancement of CRA enforcement in 1998 caused a 7.7 percentage points increase in annual growth rate of mortgage...
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