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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
Investment Hangover and the Great Recession
From Alp Simsek, Andrei Sheifer, and Matthew Rognile: We present a model of investment hangover motivated by the Great Recession. In our model, overbuilding of residential capital requires a reallocation of productive resources to nonresidential sectors, which is facilitated by … Continue reading
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Tagged Alp Simsek, Andrei Sheifer, Great Recession, Housing, Investment, Matthew Rognile, Recovery
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Growth in Cities and Countries
From Chang-Tai Hsieh and Enrico Moretti: A large micro literature has documented the local forces leading to growth and decline of cities. This paper measures the consequences of these local forces on aggregate output and welfare. We use a Rosen-Roback model of … Continue reading
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Tagged Chang-Tai Hsieh, Economic Growth, Enrico Moretti, Growth, Housing, Housing Policy, Local Labor Markets, Misallocation
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Quasi-Experimental Evidence on The Connection Between Property Taxes and Residential Capital Investment
From Byron Lutz: Do low property taxes attract residential capital investment? This question is answered using an unusual school finance reform in the state of New Hampshire. The reform induced large shifts in property tax burdens and this shock is used … Continue reading
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Tagged Byron Lutz, Capital, Capital Investment, Housing, Investment, Local Public Finance, Property Taxes
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Tax Benefits to Housing and Inefficiencies in Location and Consumption
From David Albouy and Andrew Hanson: Tax benefits to owner-occupied housing provide incentives for housing consumption, offsetting weaker disincentives of the property tax. These benefits also help counter the penalty federal taxes impose on households who work in productive high-wage … Continue reading
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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Housing Dynamics
From Ed Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko, Eduardo Morales and Charles Nathanson: The volatility of housing prices and construction levels is high. Both price changes and permits exhibit strong positive serial correlations at one year frequencies. Prices, but not permits, show strong mean … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Nathanson, Ed Glaeser, Eduardo Morales, Finance, Housing, Joseph Gyourko
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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
One thing I learned in Hanover this weekend – UK Housing Subsidies Edition
Sorry for the light posting – I was out of town for a college reunion. It was great to talk to old classmates. One of my friends who lives in London told me about new UK mortgage subsidy programs that … Continue reading
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Tagged Britain, Dylan Matthews, Europe, Fannie and Freddie, GSEs, Housing, Mervyn King, mortgage market, Subsidies, UK
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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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