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Economic Consequences of Housing Speculation / Zhenyu Gao, Michael Sockin, Wei Xiong.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gao, Zhenyu.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26457.
- NBER working paper series no. w26457
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.
- Summary:
- By exploiting variation in state capital gains taxation as an instrument, we analyze the economic consequences of housing speculation during the U.S. housing boom in the 2000s. We find that housing speculation, anchored, in part, on extrapolation of past housing price changes, led not only to greater price appreciation, economic expansions, and housing construction during the boom in 2004-2006, but also to more severe economic downturns during the subsequent bust in 2007-2009. Our analysis supports supply overhang and local household demand as two key channels for transmitting these adverse effects.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- November 2019.
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