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Is UK monetary policy driving private housing rents?

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Daniel Albuquerque and Jamie Lenney Rent prices have risen by 9% on average in England since the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) started raising interest rates in December 2021. So initially rising interest rates could well cause pricing pressures in the rental market.

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Monetary policy and US housing expansions: what can we expect for the post-COVID-19 housing recovery?

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Bruno Albuquerque, Martin Iseringhausen and Frédéric Opitz. The fall in aggregate demand due to the COVID-19 shock has brought the eight-year long US housing market expansion to a halt. In the light of these changes in the housing market, we ask whether the transmission of housing demand to the housing market has changed over time.

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Fintech Fundings: 12 Companies Raise $205 million Week Ending June 18

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HQ: Albuquerque, New Mexico. Tags: Risk management, security, regulation, compliance. Latest round: $20 million (at $100 million valuation). Total raised: $31 million. Source: Finovate. Restaurant point of sale system. Latest round: $15 million Series A. Total raised: $15 million. Source: Crunchbase. FundsIndia. Source: Crunchbase.

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The declining elasticity of US housing supply

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Bruno Albuquerque, Knut Are Aastveit and André Anundsen. We find that US housing supply has become less elastic since the crisis, with bigger declines in places where land-use regulation has tightened the most, and in areas that had larger price declines during the crisis. Main framework to estimate local housing supply elasticities.

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Hot banking sessions at IBM Think 2019

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Speaker: Henrique Albuquerque, Bradesco Bank. Credit Suisse is facing an increasing number of regulations and laws each year, and there is no end in sight. Like many banks, Santander Bank had a myriad of security solutions that kept growing whenever new regulations arose. Wednesday, 10:30 AM – 11:10 AM | Session ID: 4413A.