This paper examines the welfare cost of rare housing disasters characterized by large drops in house prices. I … construct an overlapping generations general equilibrium model with recursive preferences and housing disaster shocks. The … likelihood and magnitude of housing disasters are inferred from historic housing market experiences in the OECD. The model shows …

In this paper, we estimate the effect on housing prices of the expansion of the Vancouver SkyTrain rapid transit … expansion increases housing prices not only in neighborhoods where the expansion occurred, but also in those with access to pre …-existing segments of the network. We show how these network housing price effects depend on household commuting patterns, and discuss …

The common-factor hypothesis is one possible explanation for the housing wealth effect. Under this hypothesis, house … price appreciation is related to changes in consumption as long as the available proxies for the common driver of housing … and non-housing demand are noisy and housing supply is not perfectly elastic. We simulate a model in which a common factor …

make decisions based on their perceived level of housing wealth. Numerical simulations generate the effects of house value …

This paper produces new evidence and stylised facts on housing, wealth accumulation and wealth distribution, relying on … questions: i) How is homeownership and housing tenure distributed across the population along various socio …-economic characteristics such as income, wealth and age? What is the weight of housing in households’ balance sheets and how does this vary …

and saving for young and old home-owners, both through a direct wealth eff ect and through housing equity serving as …

In this paper, I study the role of housing for wealth accumulation and the determination of the equilibrium real … increase in the share of housing wealth of almost 8 pp. All of these patterns are broadly in line with the empirical …

job search with liquid wealth accumulation and consumption of housing that can be rented, bought on credit, or sold. In … using NLSY data from 1978 until 2005. We find that more relaxed housing lending conditions, particularly lower downpayment …

looking at the effect of a reduction in the maximum loan-to-value (LTV) ratio on homeownership rates, house prices and housing … is initially loose, allowing households to lever up against the collateral value of their housing. A reduction in the LTV … is the fall in house prices and the greater is the rise in the share of constrained homeowners and housing wealth …

importance. In the second part of the paper we employ a standard model of dynamic optimisation with housing demand and seasonal … housing consumption …