Essays about: "housing finance"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 33 essays containing the words housing finance.

1. 1. Determinants of Capital Structure - Testing the Pecking Order Theory on the Swedish Construction Industry

   University essay from KTH/Fastigheter och byggande

   Author : Henrik Ek; Sofia Fjelkestam; [2020]
   Keywords : Capital Structure; Pecking Order Theory; Construction industry; Leverage Regressions; Sweden; Kapitalstruktur; Pecking order teorin; Byggbranschen; Finansiell hävstångsregression; Sverige;

   Abstract : Building new homes and oÿces are vital for the well-being in a country from both an economic sense and from a viewpoint that a growing population needs more housing. For construction companies to be able to meet their objectives, an important issue is the capital structure choice. READ MORE

3. 2. The Effect of House Price Risk on Homeowners' Portfolio Choice

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

   Author : Yuhuang Sun; [2020]
   Keywords : Household finance; House price risk; Limited stock market participation; Hedging motive;

   Abstract : Using the 2017 wave of China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), this paper studies how house price risk affects homeowners' stock market participation and share of liquid financial wealth invested in stocks conditional on not moving. Exploiting the subsample of homeowners whose tenure choices are exogenous due to the institutional changes during the Chinese housing market privatization, this study finds that the correlation between housing return and stock return has a crowding-out effect on both stock market participation and stock shares among participants. READ MORE

4. 3. Housing Finance and the Transmission of Mortgage Spread Shocks

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Denise Hansson; [2020]
   Keywords : Mortgage spread; credit supply; housing demand; monetary policy; business cycle;

   Abstract : Credit market frictions, captured by mortgage spreads, are potentially an equally important driver behind mortgage rate innovations as monetary policy. Possibly a significant driver of business cycles. Yet, the effect of such shocks on the economy has barely received any attention in empirical research. READ MORE

5. 4. Nowcasting with Dynamic Factor Model and Real-Time Vintage Data: A financial market actor's perspective

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Matematisk statistik

   Author : Filip Östlund; Marcel Attar; [2020]
   Keywords : Nowcasting; Macroeconomic Prediction; Dynamic Factor Model; DFM; Pseudo Real-Time Vintage data; U.S. GDP Growth Rate; Financial Market Actor; Mathematics and Statistics;

   Abstract : We develop and examine a dynamic factor nowcasting model (DFM) from the perspective of a financial market participant. The first point of analysis is the examination of its performance. Unlike other papers, we evaluate with daily frequency so that the performance metric reflects a continuous nowcasting signal. READ MORE

6. 5. The Forgotten Societies of the Welfare State : The Society of Stråssa and its Build-up, put in a Wider Perspective of the Welfare State of Sweden

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

   Author : Jenny Larsson; [2020]
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   Abstract : This thesis shows the build-up of a society in the golden days of the welfare state of Sweden. Stråssa, a small society built up around one big employer – the mine, owned by the Grängesbergsbolaget – is used as a case-study, put in the larger perspective of the welfare state and its values. READ MORE