The Unassuming Economist

Below is a preliminary list of papers that will presented at this year’s AEA Annual Meeting on January 3-5 in San Diego, California.

On housing and cycles

• Housing Cycles and Exchange Rates – Paper
• Is the Behavior of Sellers with Expected Gains and Losses Relevant to Cycles in House Prices? – Paper
• China’s Housing Bubble, Infrastructure Investment, and Economic Growth – Paper and Presentation
• Black-Cat Markets and the Value of Superstition: Evidence from Housing Prices in China – AEA
• Regional housing market risk – AEA
• ‘Memory’ in the Middle: Housing Price – Macroeconomic Interactions in the United States – Paper
• The Impact of Parental Wealth on College Enrollment & Degree Attainment: Evidence from the Housing Boom & Bust – AEA
• Villains or Scapegoats? The Role of Subprime Borrowers in Driving the United States Housing Boom – Paper
• Property Tax Limits and Female Labor Supply: Evidence from the Housing Boom and Bust – AEA
• Local House Price Comovements – Paper
• How Auctions Amplify House-Price Fluctuations – Paper
• Unemployment and the United States Housing Market during the Great Recession – AEA

On housing and credit

• Mortgage Credit and Housing Markets – Paper
• Mortgage Debt, Consumption, and Illiquid Housing Markets in the Great Recession – Paper
• The Geography of Mortgage Lending in Times of FinTech – Paper
• Credit Surface of Mortgage Loans: Lenders’ Belief of Housing Markets – AEA
• Concentration and Lending in Mortgage Markets – AEA
• Policy Uncertainty and Bank Mortgage Credit – Paper and Presentation

On housing policy

• The Macroprudential Toolkit: Effectiveness and Interactions – Paper
• Aggregate and Distributional Impacts of Housing Policy: China’s Experiment – Paper
• Unintended Consequences of LTV Limits on Credit and Housing Choices – Paper
• Sticky Expectations in the Housing Market: Evidence from the Housing Purchase Restriction Policy – AEA
• Harping on about HARP: Consequences of Ineligibility for the Home Affordable Refinance Program – Paper
• The Anatomy of the Transmission of Macroprudential Policies – Paper
• Comparing the PRA Program to Other Housing Options for People with Disabilities – AEA
• Targeting In-Kind Transfers through Market Design: A Revealed Preference Analysis of Public Housing Allocation – AEA
• Bank Capital Requirements and Asset Prices: Evidence from the Swiss Real Estate Market – Paper

On housing affordability

• (Why) Are Housing Costs Rising? – Paper
• Affordable Housing and City Welfare – Paper
• Do More Housing Units Reduce Nearby Rents? – AEA
• Procyclical Price-Rent Ratios: Theory and Implications – Paper
• Religion, Ideology, and Housing Affordability: Israeli Settlement of the West Bank – Paper
• Highly Disaggregated Land Unavailability – Paper

On housing and evictions

• Does Eviction Have Spillovers on Children? – AEA
• Housing Insecurity, Homelessness and Populism: Evidence from the UK – Paper
• Measuring Housing Stability with Consumer Reference Data – AEA

On housing, investors, and speculation

• Investors and Housing Affordability – Paper
• Fundamental and Speculative Demands for Housing – AEA
• S. Housing as Global Safe Haven Asset: Evidence from China Shocks – Paper
• Capital Flows, Asset Prices, and the Real Economy: A “China Shock” in the US Real Estate Market – AEA
• Capital Flows, Real Estate, and City Business Cycles: Micro Evidence from the German Boom – AEA

On housing and the sharing economy

• Does bike sharing increase house prices? Evidence from micro-level data in Shanghai – Paper and Presentation
• The Last Mile Matters: Impact of Dockless Bike Sharing on Subway Housing Price Premium – Paper
• Airbnb and Private Investment in Chicago Neighborhoods – Paper

On housing, the environment, and natural disasters

• Perception Versus Reality: The Noise Complaint Effect on Home Values – Paper
• How Much Does Nearby Blight Affect Real Estate Prices? The Case of Hurricane Sandy – Paper
• Dust Storms, Migration and Housing Markets – AEA

On housing and migration

• A Tale of Two Cities: The Impact of Cross-Border Migration on Hong Kong’s Housing Market – Paper and Presentation
• A World Divided: Refugee Centers, House Prices, and Household Preferences – Paper and Presentation
• The Real Estate Consequences of Immigration Shocks: Evidence from the United States’ Mexican Repatriation – AEA
• Residential Segregation and Ethnicity – AEA
• Immigration and Housing Rents: The 2015 Refugee Crisis in Germany – AEA

On housing and everything else

• The Role of Agents in Tax Evasion: Evidence from the Housing Market in China – Paper
• Inside Job: Evidence from the Chinese Housing Market – Paper
• On the Differential Impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on the Housing Market: Blue versus Red – Paper and Presentation
• Shifting House Price Gradients: Evidence Using Both Rental and Asset Prices – Paper
• Local Constant-Quality Housing Market Liquidity Indices – Paper
• Do Elderly Individuals Delay Claiming Social Security and Cash-out Home Equity When House Prices Appreciate? – Paper
• Street Name Fluency and Housing Prices – Paper and Presentation
• Picture and Playground: Valuing Coastal Amenities – Paper
• Endowments and Minority Homeownership – Paper
• Heterogeneous Households and Market Segmentation in a Hedonic Framework – Paper and Presentation
• Housing Search Frictions: Evidence from Detailed Search Data and a Field Experiment – AEA
• Housing Wealth, Bequests, and the Elderly – Paper
• Public Transport, Noise Complaints, and Housing: Evidence from Sentiment Analysis in Singapore – Paper and Presentation
• The Most Wonderful Time of the Year? Thin Markets, House Price Seasonality, and the December Discount – Paper
• Do School Shootings Erode Property Values? – Paper
• Collateral Value and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Property Tax Reform – Paper
• Tracing the Source of Liquidity for Distressed Housing Markets – Paper
• Neighborhood housing rent index construction and spatial discontinuity: a machine learning approach – Paper
• A Tale of Two Cities: The Impact of Cross-Border Migration on Hong Kong’s Housing Market – Paper and Presentation

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