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Real Estate and Urban Economics, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2021

This paper estimates the amenity value of urban trees. The empirical strategy exploits an ecological catastrophe—the emerald ash borer (EAB) infestation—to instrument for the evolution of the tree canopy in Toronto between 2008 and 2018. One additional tree within a range of 50m from the centroi...
Keywords: Housing price, wealth e ects, collateral e ects, online consumption, China
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Real Estate and Urban Economics, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2021

Keywords: CRT securities, Credit Risk, government investment, mortgage
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Real Estate and Urban Economics

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May 2021

Homeowners’ insurance provides households financial protection from climate losses. To improve access and affordability, state regulators impose price controls on insurance companies. Using novel data, we construct a new measure of rate setting frictions for individual states and show that differe...
Keywords: regional business cycles, dynamic spatial equilibrium, credit conditions, Mortgages, first-time buyers, home ownership, house prices, subsidies, Millennials."
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Real Estate and Urban Economics

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May 2021

Using detailed micro-level data, we show that individuals' beliefs about climate change influence their choice and level of flood insurance coverage. Our empirical strategy exploits the heterogeneous impact of widening partisan polarization on climate change beliefs after the 2016 general election. ...
Keywords: Global warming, adaptation, ood insurance, perceptions
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Accounting

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May 2021

We examine two forward-looking mutual fund ratings: the analyst rating produced by human analysts and the quantitative rating generated by a machine learning technique. The analyst rating identifies outperforming funds, while the quantitative rating does not—this difference derives mostly from the...
Keywords: Analyst Rating, Quantitative Rating, Mutual Funds, Information provision, machine learning
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