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Accelerating Inflation and Nonassumable Fixed-Rate Mortgages: Effects On Consumer Choice and Welfare

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  • Patric H. Hendershott

    (The Ohio State University and National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

  • Sheng Hu

    (Purdue University)

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As a result of both the decline of real user cost of owner-occupied housing and the failure of this cost for nonresidential investment to fail similarly, some have argued that the U.S. economy has overinvested to housing at the expense of industrial capital and thus has suffered substantial productivity losses.

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  • Patric H. Hendershott & Sheng Hu, 1982. "Accelerating Inflation and Nonassumable Fixed-Rate Mortgages: Effects On Consumer Choice and Welfare," Public Finance Review, , vol. 10(2), pages 158-184, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:pubfin:v:10:y:1982:i:2:p:158-184
    DOI: 10.1177/109114218201000203
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    1. Patric H. Hendershott & Kevin E. Villani, 1981. "The Terminations Premium in Mortgage Coupon Rates: Evidence on the Integration of Mortgage and Bond Markets," NBER Working Papers 0738, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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    8. Patric H. Hendershott & James D. Shilling, 1982. "Capital Allocation and the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981," Public Finance Review, , vol. 10(2), pages 242-273, April.
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    6. Gatzlaff, Dean H. & Haurin, Donald R., 1998. "Sample Selection and Biases in Local House Value Indices," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 43(2), pages 199-222, March.
    7. Michael J. Lea, 1982. "Housing Demand and the Standard Mortgage Instrument: Comment," Public Finance Review, , vol. 10(2), pages 185-192, April.
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    10. Patric H. Hendershott & Sheng Cheng Hu & Kevin E. Villani, 1982. "The Economics of Mortgage Terminations: Implications for Mortgage Lenders and Mortgage Terms," NBER Working Papers 0918, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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