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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

House Prices, Home Equity and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from U.S. Census Micro Data

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda
During 1992-2007, house price growth is strongly correlated with local entrepreneurship. We show with Census Bureau data that most of this entry is related to construction and real estate; these entrants tend to be small and short-lived. Using a 1998 Texas reform that... View Details
Keywords: House Prices; Collateral Channel; Entry; Demography; Mortgages; Entrepreneurship
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Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, and Ramana Nanda. "House Prices, Home Equity and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from U.S. Census Micro Data." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-069, February 2015. (Revised June 2022.)
  • September 2022
  • Article

House Prices, Home Equity and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from U.S. Census Micro Data

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda
During 1992-2007, house price growth is strongly correlated with local entrepreneurship. We show with Census Bureau data that most of this entry is related to construction and real estate; these entrants tend to be small and short-lived. Using a 1998 Texas reform that... View Details
Keywords: House Prices; Collateral Channel; Entry; Entrepreneurship; Housing; Real Estate Industry; Construction Industry
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Kerr, Sari Pekkala, William R. Kerr, and Ramana Nanda. "House Prices, Home Equity and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from U.S. Census Micro Data." Journal of Monetary Economics 130 (September 2022): 103–119.
  • 11 Mar 2013
  • News

Miller Sees `True Price Increases' in U.S. Housing

  • Research Summary

Optimal Portfolios with Housing Derivatives

Households that contemplate moving to different cities or trading up or down in the fu-ture are exposed to substantial housing risk. In order to mitigate this risk, I derive the op-timal portfolios using housing futures. In addition to the optimum growth portfolio,... View Details
  • 29 Apr 2013
  • News

Nicolas Retsinas Diagnoses the Recovering U.S. Housing Market

  • 22 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?

The United States housing market is tight and expensive and shows no signs of easing. Existing home sales hit a 15-year high in 2021, with 6.12 million sold, a jump of 8.5 percent, according to the National Association of Realtors. Median... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • 23 Jan 2008
  • Op-Ed

A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?

Dictionaries are not static. Some words go unused for so long that lexicographers dub them archaic. Definitions also gravitate to that catch-bin. The plummeting housing market has forced a reevaluation, not just of the financial value of... View Details
Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Banking; Construction; Real Estate
  • 26 Oct 2010
  • News

Sweeney, Retsinas Interview About U.S. Housing Market

  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Housing Consumption and the Cost of Remote Work

By: Christopher Stanton and Pratyush Tiwari
This paper estimates housing choice differences between households with and without remote workers. Prior to the pandemic, the expenditure share on housing was more than seven percent higher for remote households compared to similar non-remote households in the same... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Geographic Mobility; Housing; Cost; Geographic Location; Income
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Stanton, Christopher, and Pratyush Tiwari. "Housing Consumption and the Cost of Remote Work." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28483, February 2021.
  • 2011
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The Economics of Housing Finance Reform

By: David S. Scharfstein and Adi Sunderam
This paper analyzes the two leading types of proposals for reform of the housing finance system: (i) broad-based, explicit, priced government guarantees of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and (ii) privatization. Both proposals have drawbacks. Properly-priced... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Housing; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics
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Scharfstein, David S., and Adi Sunderam. "The Economics of Housing Finance Reform." In The Future of Housing Finance: Restructuring the U.S. Residential Mortgage Market, edited by Martin Neil Baily. Brookings Institution Press, 2011.
  • 25 Jan 2011
  • News

Harvard's Retsinas Interview on U.S. Home Prices

  • 09 May 2014
  • News

If the housing market can't find its mojo...

    Harvard's Retsinas Interview on U.S. Home Prices

    Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Nicolas Retsinas, director emeritus of the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, talks about the outlook for the U.S. housing market and mortgage foreclosures. U.S. home prices... View Details

    • 01 Jun 2011
    • News

    Boston-area home prices off 2.7% in a year

    • 28 Aug 2011
    • News

    Long-term housing demand trend is positive

    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Gray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing

    By: Romana L. Autrey and Francesco Bova
    Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its authorized channels, for instance when goods designated for a foreign market are resold domestically. One method multinationals use to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices... View Details
    Keywords: Price; Multinational Firms and Management; Demand and Consumers; Distribution Channels; Business and Government Relations; Sales; Competitive Strategy
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    Autrey, Romana L., and Francesco Bova. "Gray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-098, February 2009. (Revised October 2009.)
    • 30 Aug 2011
    • News

    Millions of Distressed Properties Stuck in 'Shaky' U.S. Housing Market

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    Systematic Risk in the Housing Markets

    A one-factor pricing model is employed to investigate the internal consistency of single family home and professionally-managed property prices during 1986-2006. The risk fac-tor used here is the US real estate index, which has much stronger explanatory power than the... View Details
    • 30 Aug 2016
    • News

    Foreign Investors Push Boston Real Estate Prices Higher

    • 16 Apr 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Gray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing

    Keywords: by Romana L. Autrey & Francesco Bova
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