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compensation for risk, especially for higher covariance with income growth and lower liquidity. Superstar real estate is …
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risk, especially for higher co-variance with income growth and lower liquidity. Superstar real estate is comparatively safe. …
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I show that individuals whose unemployment risk tends to increase more when local home prices fall optimally invest less in owner-occupied housing. Using a unique, Swedish register-based database, I find that a one standard deviation increase in the covariance between individually estimated...
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Unemployment leads to large and persistent income losses for workers. Higher unemployment in the labor market therefore …. The calibrated model replicates the empirically observed spillover effect for the U.S. economy. Higher income uncertainty … is the main driver of the spillover effect, rather than actual income losses. The spillover effect transmits one-third of …
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In 2001, the AZF plant exploded in Toulouse (France). The accident was unexpected, it strongly damaged local housing and benefited from a wide media coverage. It provides a rare opportunity to analyze the consequences of a shift in risk perception on housing markets and neighborhoods subject to...
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This paper investigates the effects of house price uncertainty shocks on economic activity, and traces the origins of the shocks. A Markov-switching vector autoregression (MS-VAR) model shows that house price uncertainty shocks in expansionary regimes increase residential investment, housing...
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ownership ; tenure choice ; first-time home-buyers ; marriage ; income risk …
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We document that home ownership of households with "heads" aged 25-44 years fell substantially between 1980 and 2000 and recovered only partially during the 2001-2005 housing boom. The 1980-2000 decline in young home ownership occurred as improvements in mortgage opportunities made it easier to...
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We propose the condemnation risk discount theory, whereby home buyers deduct a discount from housing prices in the absence of insurance against the risk that the government will condemn their property for private transfer. Homeowners cannot separate out the negative risk that their home will be...
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We present evidence of differential effects of risk perception in the housing market. We use housing transaction data near military bases to examine capitalization of potential military jet accident risk in house prices. We find that properties in accident potential zones (APZs) transact at...
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