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Working Paper
Hedging inflation and income risks
This paper describes potential new markets for long-term inflation risk, and shows the relationship such markets would have to other potential new markets, markets for long-term claims on income aggregates. One inflation-risk market which would be very useful is a market for long-term (or perpetual) claims on a cash flow of constant real value each period, a cash flow measured each period by an index of consumer prices. Such markets need not take the form of indexed government or corporate debt; it would be more natural to create futures-like markets for cash flows tied to an index and paid ...
Journal Article
The behavior of home buyers in boom and post-boom markets
Conference Paper
Asset prices, monetary policy, and bank regulation
Conference Paper
Causes of changing financial market volatility
Conference Paper
Understanding recent trends in house prices and homeownership
Journal Article
A decade of boom and bust in the prices of single-family homes: Boston and Los Angeles, 1983 to 1993
The 1980s and 1990s have been turbulent times in the U.S. market for single-family homes. For most of the previous two decades, housing prices across states and metropolitan areas moved together and increased slowly in real terms while regional differences generally remained small. The 1980s and 1990s, in contrast, have seen increased price volatility and sharp differences in price behavior across regions with substantial housing price booms in some regions and major price declines in others. ; These boom-bust cycles had serious consequences for regional economies and national mortgage ...
Journal Article
Macro markets and financial security
Uncertainty about national income growth poses significant macroeconomic risk to households all over the world. To help reduce investors' exposure, researchers have proposed a controversial new set of security markets called macro markets. These international markets would trade long-term claims on the income of an entire country or region. For example, in a macro market for the United States, an investor could buy a claim on the U.S. national income and then receive dividends equal to a fraction of national income for as long as the claim is held. Although many barriers stand in the way of ...