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I'm an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Faculty Research Fellow at National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Public economics group. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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Tag Archives: Housing Finance
The Causes and Consequences of House Price Momentum
From Adam Guren: House price changes are positively autocorrelated over two to three years, a phenomenon known as momentum. This paper introduces, empirically grounds, and quantitatively analyzes an amplification mechanism that can generate substantial momentum from small frictions and demonstrates that the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Guren, House Prices, Housing Finance, Real Estate
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Arrested Development: Theory and Evidence of Supply-Side Speculation in the Housing Market
From Nathanson and Zwick: This paper incorporates speculation into the standard supply-and-demand framework used to analyze housing booms and busts. Speculation reverses the common intuition that elastic housing supply attenuates housing booms. Housing market frictions make land a more attractive … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Nathanson, Eric Zwick, Great Recession, Housing, Housing Bust, Housing Finance, Land, Real Estate, Speculation
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Housing Collateral and Entrepreneurship
From Martin Schmalz, David Sraer, and David Thesmar: This paper shows that collateral constraints restrict entrepreneurial activity. Our empirical strategy uses variations in local house prices as shocks to the value of col- lateral available to individuals owning a house and … Continue reading
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Tagged David Sraer, David Thesmar, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Housing, Housing Finance, Martin Schmalz
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Household Debt and the Dynamic Effects of Income Tax Changes
From James Cloyne and Paolo Surico: This paper investigates a new channel in the transmission of fiscal policy: household debt. Using a long span of expenditure survey data and a new narrative measure of exogenous income tax changes for the UK, … Continue reading
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Tagged Consumption, Credit Constraints, debt, Durables, Finance, Heterogeneity, Household Debt, Housing Finance, James Cloyne, macro, Mortgages, MPC, Tax Cuts, Taxes
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Heterogeneity in the MPC: Evidence from the Crisis
We find evidence supportive of heterogeneity in the MPC by household income and leverage. For example, the MPC for households living in zip codes with an average annual income of less than $35 thousand is three times as large as … Continue reading
Incidence and Price Discrimination: Evidence from Housing Vouchers
From Robert Collinson and Peter Ganong: What is the incidence of housing vouchers? In a frictionless, price-taking equilibrium, increased generosity of a narrowly-targeted subsidy causes in- creases in unit quality. However, search frictions may limit quality improve- ments and subsidies may … Continue reading
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Tagged Government Spending, Housing Finance, Housing Vouchers, HUD, Peter Ganong, Robert Collinson, Spending, Tax Incidence, Taxes
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Will Housing Save the U.S. Economy? by Amir Sufi
Sufi has a short paper on this issue that is worth reading. My bottom line is that we need to temper our optimism on what a housing recovery can do for the U.S. economy. I agree that house prices will continue … Continue reading
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Tagged Amir Sufi, Credit, Housing, Housing Finance, Housing Wealth, inequality, Middle Class, MPC, Refi
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The Future of Housing Finance
I got an email from CBO this morning on this topic and thought I’d revisit the two main options under consideration from the administration’s Housing Finance report that I helped work on a bit more than two years ago. If … Continue reading
Fraud & Housing Finance:
A new paper from Tomasz Piskorski, Amit Seru, and James Witkin, which was recently featured in the economist. ABSTRACT: We contend that buyers received false information about the true quality of assets in contractual disclosures by intermediaries during the sale … Continue reading
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Tagged Amit Seru, Finance, Housing Finance, James Witkin, Tomasz Piskorski
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Only Game In Town: Housing Finance & the US Government
The USG, which has provided a ton of fiscal support for housing finance, continues to be the only game in town. Source: Slide 10. Data as of end of Dec 2012.
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