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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Housing Boom"”.
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The Chinese Housing Boom and Monetary Policy
The aim of this thesis The Chinese Housing Boom and Monetary Policy is to study the relationship between the Chinese housing boom and monetary policy for the past two decades in a systematic way. The thesis is composed of eight chapters. Chapter 1 is introductory and Chapter 2 reviews relevant …
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Essays on Retirement Behavior during the Housing Boom and Bust
… the effects of loss aversion concerning the housing market and the local foreclosure rate on retirement during the housing bust periods. The second chapter creates a dynamic programming life-cycle model with the housing wealth and uses the Method of Simulated Moments to systematically study …
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Essays in Consumer and Small Business Finance
… consumer and small business finance. The last US housing boom and the development of mortgage securitization are commonly believed to fuel the credit expansion before the financial crisis. The first two chapters contribute to these discussions by investigating the bank-lending channel through …
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Mid-Twentieth Century Residential Development in San Luis Obispo
… and ending during the post-World War II housing boom. During this time the City grew in population and in size, adding several acres of land and thousands of single-family residential parcels. This research presents a chronological representation of the City’s growth, as well as key …
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Lessons From President Moon Jae In’s Housing Policy and The Road to Affordable Home Ownership in Seoul, South Korea
A fundamental goal of housing policy is to provide a safe and quality place to live for the population. This thesis studies the provision of affordable homeownership in Seoul, South Korea and particularly for non-homeowners and first-time buyers who did not have an opportunity to participate in the …
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Flags of Caution for Future Downturns in the Housing Market Prediction Using the Markov Chain Model
The recent downturn in the United States housing market yielded a period of time akin to that of the Great Depression. Since the 1930s, there has never been an economic downturn in this country as close as that of the Great Depression era. The Depression experienced similarities to the current …
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Housing Demand, Housing Wealth, and Public Policy
<p>This dissertation comprises three papers on housing demand, housing wealth, and public policy. The first two papers make use of veteran access to the VA Loan Guaranty Program during the post-war housing boom during the 1940s and 1950s. The findings show that, for both World War II and Korean War …
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Evolving the Suburbs
… It was on these allegories that the Post-WWII housing boom capitalized, using slogans and advertisements meant to invoke the glory and strength of owning a home. They charged that a man was not truly a man until he owned his own home, and that this American Dream can be achieved for …
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Essays on Global Imbalances and the Financial Crisis
… and international capital flows impact on the US housing boom, credit boom, and consequently the consumption boom, before the GFC. A partial equilibrium model is built to simulate the propagation mechanisms based on the empirical findings. The third essay is a modelling chapter. It begins with a …
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What drives condo prices : the rental or single family housing market?
… impact on the development of residential housing. To answer these questions historical housing prices from 1996 to 2012 for 44 of the largest metropolitan statistical areas in the U.S. will be studied. Linear regression analysis will be utilized at the metro level to understand how condo …
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Essays In Health Economics
… period 1989-2010 to investigate the impacts of housing and financial wealth on healthcare spending. The results indicate significant housing and financial wealth effects and relatively large housing wealth effects for the pooled sample. Results for each survey years of the Survey of Consumer …
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Local Interactions Between Firms And Consumers
… mortgages predates the start of the housing boom and continues to rise thereafter.
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Essays on the interactions of local economies and their macroeconomic implications
… I document that the increase in the demand for housing explains the boom, through two channels. The construction channel occurs because housing is a durable good: hence there is a surge in the number of new houses and construction jobs. The house price channel occurs because the migrants' …
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Do new student rentals affect other housing submarkets? Evidence from Champaign-Urbana
… explores the relationship between student rental housing and other submarkets. I use Champaign-Urbana, Illinois as my case study area — home to the flagship University of Illinois campus. I examine university enrollment data from 1980 to 2018 to track demographic changes in the student population. …
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Informal housing in New York City : a spatial history of squats, lofts, and illegal conversions
… equally effective in describing a range of housing practices in New York City, one of the wealthiest, most prototypically urban cities in the globe. The model of a binary, or gradient, between the "formal" and "informal" cities has been remarkably productive in many contexts, but has seen …
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Essays on the Chinese and the U.S. Housing Markets
Housing is one of the most important assets for households and has profound implications for the economy. Housing markets in different nations may differ in institutional backgrounds and phases of housing cycles, but people across the world are faced with some similar challenges in understanding …
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Three essays on housing economics
… that investigate the spatial behavior of housing price and its volatility and one chapter that focuses on a more fundamental housing issue. The first chapter examines the spatial variation of housing price volatility. I develop a flexible spatial volatility model for squared returns using …
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From Bomb Zone to Boom Town: Real Estate Trends and Community Based Practice in Vieques, Puerto Rico
… were bought by land speculators and baby-boomers from the U.S. The increase in demand caused prices to skyrocket, quadrupling prices in just four years. Activists, residents and government officials are now concerned that low-to-middle income Viequense families, who account for the …