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Housing and the Macroeconomy: The Role of Bailout Guarantees for Government Sponsored Enterprises [PDF]
This paper evaluates the macroeconomic and distributional effects of government bailout guarantees for Government Sponsored Enterprises (such as Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac) in the mortgage market. In order to do so we construct a model with heterogeneous,
Dirk Krueger, Karsten Jeske, Kurt Mitman
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Risk Characteristics of Real Estate Related Securities--An Extension of Liu and Mei (1992) [PDF]
This study extends from Liu and Mei (1992) by further investigation of assets, real estate related securities, which includes both equity and mortgage real estate investment trusts (REITs), the stocks of builder- and owner-companies, and mortgage-backed ...
Hsien-hsing Liao, Jianping Mei
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Family financial assistance with home ownership has attracted significant scholarly attention in recent years. However, the role of culture and ethnicity, transnational ties, and migration in this practice remains significantly under‐addressed.
Julia Cook
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WHO CAN MORTGAGE TO BUY FINISHED HOUSING? AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF A FORMER SOVIET REPUBLIC
Соціальна економікаThe housing markets in former Soviet Union countries have undergone substantial transformations since 1991, with mortgage lending emerging as a pivotal instrument driving housing demand and ownership.
Giga Kikoria, Sara Férnandez López
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Government response to home mortgage distress: lessons from the Great Depression [PDF]
The Great Depression was the worst macroeconomic collapse in U.S. history. Sharp declines in household income and real estate values resulted in soaring mortgage delinquency rates.
David C. Wheelock
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Taking Stock: Elite Studies and Social Change
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article provides a systematic synthesis of contemporary elite sociology through the analytical lens of change and stability. We distinguish between two types of change: change within elites, referring to transformations in elite composition, circulation, or internal characteristics; and change by elites, designating processes whereby ...
Lena Ajdacic +13 more
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An empirical characterization of mortgage default in Colombia between 1997 and 2004 [PDF]
This paper examines the relationship between mortgage default decisions and relevant observable variables under the light of a random utility model. The focus of the study is the Colombian mortgage market between 1997 and 2004 using two separate data ...
Dairo Estrada, Juan Esteban Carranza
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Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
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Mortgage interest rate dispersion in the euro area [PDF]
Despite the remarkable economic and financial convergence over the last ten years in the euro area, mortgage interest rates still differ across countries.
Kok, Christoffer +1 more
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