MF10-11: Consumer transactions of all kinds are heavily regulated in the US (and all other developed capitalist countries) but debates on regulation in the US are…
RR07-2: Where the poor live and why has an enormous impact on access to jobs, decent quality schools, and other local attributes that affect a family’s ability to rise…
W05-4: This paper develops and applies a method for producing constant quality rent indexes and inflation estimates for different segments of the rental housing stock.…
W05-2: The property tax on housing is a major component of local government revenues and of consumers’ housing costs. This study uses newly available data from the 2001…
W04-7: Operating costs are an important, but not much studied component of apartment financial performance. This paper establishes an economic framework for interpreting…
BABC 04-22: Debtor protection rules ought to influence debtor/creditor interaction at three points: postdefault pre-foreclosure negotiations, the rate of default, and…
Using data from the 1998 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), this paper estimates homeownership rates that would prevail in the United States if borrowing constraints were…