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In this paper, we analyze the borrowing behavior of Japanese households in comparison to the other Group of Seven (G7) countries and also broken down by the age group of the household head. We find that pre-retirement households (households with a head in the 50-59 age group) in Japan do not...
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propose that specialization and diversity may offer externalities operating at different spatial scales. Using high …
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This paper provides new evidence on the external neighborhood benefits of homeownership among low-income populations. A … natural experiment in Israel generated large changes in neighborhood homeownership rates while holding fixed the residents and … housing stock, two primary sources of bias in traditional estimates of homeownership effects. When public housing tenants are …
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Patent citation data are used in a growing body of economics and business research on technological diffusion. Research in this area uses backward citations to measure technological knowledge acquired by the patenting entities studied. Forward citations (citations to the firm's patents made by...
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Chinese homeowner associations (HOAs) are citizen-initiated, self governing neighborhood organizations that emerged very recently in urban China. HOAs take various legal, political, and social actions to deal with neighborhood issues. However, there are large discrepancies in the effectiveness...
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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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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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