Assets in tax-deferred retirement accounts (TDA) and housing are two major components of household portfolios. In this … paper, we develop a life-cycle model to examine the interaction between households' use of TDA and their housing decisions … earlier in their lives. On the other hand, housing-related policies, such as a minimum down payment requirement and mortgage …

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 …

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 …

We solve a rich life-cycle model of household decisions involving consumption of perishable goods and housing services …, habit formation for housing consumption, stochastic labor income, stochastic house prices, home renting and owning, stock …-dependent housing expenditure share, (iii) non-housing consumption being significantly more sensitive to wealth and income shocks than …

Using the data on maintenance expenditures and self-assessed house value, I separate the measure of individual housing … stock and house prices, and use these data for testing whether nondurable consumption and housing are characterized by … nondurable consumption and housing. I reach a similar conclusion for some separate con-sumption categories, such as food and …

Using the data on maintenance expenditures and self-assessed house value, I separate the measure of individual housing … stock and house prices, and use these data for testing whether nondurable consumption and housing are characterized by … nondurable consumption and housing. I reach a similar conclusion for some separate consumption categories, such as food and …

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 …

We estimate a structural model of optimal life-cycle housing and nonhousing consumption in the presence of labor income … and house price uncertainties. The model postulates constant elasticity of substitution between housing service and … nonhousing consumption and explicitly incorporates a housing adjustment cost. Our estimation fits the cross-sectional and time …

The authors estimate a structural model of optimal life-cycle housing and consumption in the presence of realistic … labor income and house price uncertainties. The model postulates constant elasticity of substitution between housing service …-sectional and time-series household wealth and housing profiles from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics quite well and suggests an …

Supersedes Working Paper 09-7. We estimate a structural model of optimal life-cycle housing and nonhousing consumption … between housing service and nonhousing consumption and explicitly incorporates a housing adjustment cost. Our estimation fits … the cross-sectional and time-series household wealth and housing profiles from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1984 to …