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Liar's Loan? - Effects of Origination Channel and Information Falsification on Mortgage Loan Delinquency
Wei Jiang, Ashlyn Aiko Nelson, and Edward VytlacilWorking Paper
(August 2009)


Stochastic House Appreciation and Optimal Mortgage Lending
Tomasz Piskorski and Alexei TchistyiWorking Paper
(May 2008)


The Inefficiency of Refinancing:
Why Prepayment Penalties Are Good for Risky Borrowers

Chris Mayer, Tomasz Piskorski and Alexei Tchistyi Working Paper
(May 2008)
Slides
(April 2008)


Subprime Mortgages: What, Where, and to Whom?
Chris Mayer and Karen Pence
Lincoln Land Institute Conference Honoring Chip Case on December 7, 2007


Irreversible Investment, Real Options, and Competition: Evidence From Real-Estate Development
Laarni Bulan, Chris Mayer, and Tsur Somerville
Journal of Urban Economics
(forthcoming)


Inside Information and Market Making in Secondary Mortgage MarketsSteve Drucker and Chris MayerWorking Paper
(Jan. 2008)
Slides
(Oct. 2007)

Why Do Households Without Children Support Local Public Schools? Linking House Price Capitalization to School Spending
Christian Hilber and Chris Mayer
Working Paper
(Oct. 2007)
Slides
(Oct. 2006)

Optimal Mortage Design
Tomasz Piskorski and Alexei Tchistyi
Working Paper
(Aug. 2007)


Agency Conflicts, Asset Substitution, and Securitization
Yingjin Hila Gan and Chris Mayer
Working Paper
(June 2007)
Slides
(June 2007)

Experimentation under Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Risk: An Application to Entrepreneurial Survival
Jianjun Miao and Neng Wang
Working Paper
(May 2007)


Investment under Uncertainty with Strategic Debt Service

Suresh Sundaresan and Neng Wang
American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings
(May 2007)


Randomly Recurring Investment Opportunities: Real Options with Illiquid Projects

Steven R. Grenadier and Neng Wang
Working Paper
(May 2007)


Investment under Uncertainty and Time - Inconsistent Preferences

Steven R. Grenadier and Neng Wang
Journal of Financial Economics
(Apr. 2007)



Risk, Uncertainty, and Option Exercise

Jianjun Miao and Neng Wang
Working Paper
(Mar. 2007)


Agency Conflicts, Investment and Asset Pricing

Rui Albuquerque and Neng Wang Journal of Finance
(forthcoming)


Investment, Consumption, and Hedging under Incomplete Markets
Jianjun Miao and Neng Wang
Journal of Financial Economics
(forthcoming)


What Does Certification Tell Us About Teacher Effectiveness?
Evidence from New York City

Thomas Kane,
Jonah Rockoff, and Douglas Staiger
Economics of Education Review (forthcoming)

Ideas at Work
Dynamic Investment, Capital Structure, and Debt Overhang
Suresh Sundaresan and
Working Paper
(Dec. 2006)


Optimal Consumption and Asset Allocation with Unknown Income Growth
Neng Wang
Working Paper
(Nov. 2006)


Superstar Cities

Joseph Gyourko, Chris Mayer, and Todd Sinai Working Paper
(June 2006)
Slides
(Apr. 2006)
Ideas at Work

NBER Digest

Wall Street Journal
Generalizing the Permanent-Income Hypothesis: Revisiting Friedman's Conjecture on Consumption
Neng Wang
Journal of Monetary Economics
(May 2006)


There Goes the Neighborhood? Estimates of the Impact of Crime Risk on Property Values from Megan's Laws
Leigh Linden and Jonah Rockoff
Working Paper
(May 2006)

Ideas at Work

NBER Digest
What Can We Learn About the Sensitivity of Investment to Stock Prices with a Better Measure of Tobin's q?
William Gentry
and Chris Mayer
Working Paper
(May 2006)


U.S. Domestic Money, Inflation, and Output
Yunus Aksoy and Tomasz Piskorski Journal of Monetary Economics
(March 2006)

An Equilibrium Model of Wealth Distribution

Neng Wang
Journal of Monetary Economics (2006)
working paper version with appendices

Global Demographics and Their Real Estate Investment Implications
Leanne Lachman
Urban Land Institute Issue Paper Series (2006)


Assessing High House Prices: Bubbles, Fundamentals, and Misperceptions
Charles Himmelberg,
Chris Mayer,
and Todd Sinai

Journal of Economic Perspectives
(Winter 2005)


Hermes

NBER Digest
Investment timing, agency, and information

Steven R. Grenadier and
Neng Wang
Journal of Financial Economics
(March 2005)

Ideas at Work
Precautionary saving and partially observed income
Neng Wang
Journal of Monetary Economics
(Nov. 2004)


Regulation and Capitalization of Environmental Amenities:
Evidence From the Toxic Release Inventory in Massachusetts

Linda Bui and
Chris Mayer
Review of Economics and Statistics
(Aug. 2003)


Are Dividend Taxes Capitalized Into Share Prices:
Evidence From Real-Estate Investment Trusts

William Gentry, Deen Kemsley, and Chris Mayer
Journal of Finance (Feb. 2003)

The Effects of Share Prices Relative to Fundamental Value on Stock Issuances and Repurchases
William Gentry
and Chris Mayer
Working Paper
(Jan. 2003)


Caballero Meets Bewley: The Permanent-Income Hypothesis in General Equilibrium
Neng Wang
American Economic Review (2003)

Robust Permanent Income and Pricing with Filtering
Lars Peter Hansen, Thomas Sargent, and
Neng Wang
Macroeconomic Dynamics (2002)


Loss Aversion and Seller Behavior: Evidence from the Housing Market
David Genesove and Chris Mayer
Quarterly Journal of Economics
(Nov. 2001)

Ideas at Work
Property Tax Limits, Local Fiscal Behavior, and Property Values: Evidence from Massachusetts Under Proposition 2 1/2
Katherine Bradbury,
Chris Mayer,
and Karl Case
Journal of Public Economics
(May 2001)


Land Use Regulation and New Construction
Chris Mayer and Tsur Somerville
Regional Science and Urban Economics
(Dec. 2000)


Residential Construction: Using the Urban Growth Model to Estimate Housing Supply
Chris Mayer and Tsur Somerville
Journal of Urban Economics
(July 2000)


Assessing the Performance of Real-Estate Auctions
Chris Mayer
Real Estate Economics (1998)

School Quality and Massachusetts Enrollment Shifts in the Context of Tax Limitations
Katherine Bradbury,
Karl Case, and
Chris Mayer
New England Economic Review
(Jul/Aug 1998)


Intergenerational Transfers, Borrowing Constraints, and Saving Behavior: Evidence from the Housing Market
Gary Engelhardt and Chris Mayer
Journal of Urban Economics
(July 1998)


Equity and Time to Sale in the Real Estate Market
David Genesove and Chris Mayer
American Economic Review
(June 1997)


Regional Housing Supply and Credit Constraints
Chris Mayer and Tsur Somerville
New England Economic Review
(Nov/Dec 1996)


Housing Price Dynamics Within a Metropolitan Area
Karl Case and
Chris Mayer
Regional Science and Urban Economics
(June 1996)


Gifts, Down Payments, and Housing Affordability
Gary Engelhardt and Chris Mayer
Journal of Housing Research (1996)


A Model of Negotiated Sales Applied to Real Estate Auctions
Chris Mayer
Journal of Urban Economics
(July 1995)


The Housing Cycle in Eastern Massachusetts: Variations among Cities and Towns
Karl Case and
Chris Mayer
New England Economic Review
(May/June 1994)


Reverse Mortgages and the Liquidity of Housing Wealth
Chris Mayer and Katerina Simons AREUEA Journal (1994)

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