Finance Seminar with Nicola Pavanini, Tilburg University

On Friday, March 17, Nicola Pavanini, Tilburg University, will be giving a seminar on the paper: Leverage Regulation and Housing Inequality.

Friday, March 17, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:15

The Department of Finance is proud to announce the upcoming seminar with Nicola Pavanini, Tilburg University.

Nicola Pavanini will present: Leverage Regulation and Housing Inequality

ABSTRACT: We estimate an equilibrium model of housing demand and supply. The model allowsus to quantify the distributional effects of leverage regulation on mobility and access to high-quality housing. We match the population of households in Norway in 2010-2018,with demographic and finanancial characteristics, to the universe of housing transactions. Our model features households' dynamic renting and owning choices, speculators' housing portfolio rebalancing, and equilibrium pricing across housing products via a market clearing condition. We recover households' willingness to pay for housing quality and moving costs across the income distribution. Our counterfactuals show that reducing loan-to-income (LTI) limits from 5 to 3 lowers homeownership rates for low-income households by 8.5%, of which two-thirds reflect preference heterogeneity, and reduces housing choice sets of middle-income households by up to 25%.

Location:
Solbjerg Plads 3
2000 Frederiksberg
Room: SPs07

More information will follow.

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