Thomas Davidoff

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business

Assistant Professor

2053 Main Mall

Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2

Canada

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Scholarly Papers (19)

1.

Selection and Moral Hazard in the Reverse Mortgage Market

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 25 Oct 2004
Thomas Davidoff and Gerd Welke
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and Baruch College - Zicklin School Business - Real Estate Department
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Life cycle models, saving, insurance, public economics, economics of elderly, market structure, housing demand

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Supply Constraints Are Not Valid Instrumental Variables for Home Prices Because They Are Correlated with Many Demand Factors

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 25 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 30 May 2015
Thomas Davidoff
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
Downloads 968 (52,031)
Citation 45

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Housing Demand, Financing Policy, Wage Level and Structure

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Citation 37

Annuities and Individual Welfare

MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 03-15, CRR Working Paper No. 2003-11, AFA 2005 Philadelphia Meetings
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 28 Dec 2004
Thomas Davidoff, Jeffrey R. Brown and Peter A. Diamond
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Finance and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
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Annuities, annuitization, Social Security, pensions, longevity risk, insurance, standard-of-living, habit

Annuities and Individual Welfare

NBER Working Paper No. w9714
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 26 May 2003 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2022
Thomas Davidoff, Jeffrey R. Brown and Peter A. Diamond
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Finance and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
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Can 'High Costs' Justify Weak Demand for the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage?

Review of Financial Studies 2015; doi: 10.1093/rfs/hhv019
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 16 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2015
Thomas Davidoff
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
Downloads 633 (91,423)
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Mortgages, Economics of the Elderly, Housing Demand, Portfolio Choice, Social Security and Pensions, Governmental Loan Guarantees

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Reverse Mortgages: What Homeowners (Don’t) Know and How It Matters

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 21 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 24 Oct 2016
Thomas Davidoff, Patrick Gerhard and Thomas Post
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, Maastricht University and Maastricht University - Department of Finance
Downloads 540 (111,798)
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Reverse Mortgage Demand, Reverse Mortgage Knowledge, Reverse Mortgage Literacy

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Reverse Mortgage Demographics and Collateral Performance

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 24 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2014
Thomas Davidoff
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
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Mortgages, Housing Demand, Social Security and Pensions, Portfolio Choice, Insurance

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Do Reverse Mortgage Borrowers Use Credit Ruthlessly?

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 17 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2014
Thomas Davidoff and Jake Wetzel
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
Downloads 426 (148,638)
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Mortgages, Housing Demand, Social Security and Pensions, Portfolio Choice, Insurance

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Maintenance and the Home Equity of the Elderly

Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics Paper No. 03-288
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 28 Feb 2004
Thomas Davidoff
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
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Citation 28

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Economics of the Elderly, Housing Demand, Housing Supply and Markets

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Illiquid Housing as Self-Insurance: The Case of Long Term Care

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 25 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2008
Thomas Davidoff
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
Downloads 334 (194,903)
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Portfolio Choice, Insurance, Health Care, Housing Demand

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Labor Income, Housing Prices and Homeownership

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 17 Jun 2003
Thomas Davidoff
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
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Supply Constraints and Housing Prices

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 1738
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 24 May 2006
Saku Aura and Thomas Davidoff
University of Missouri at Columbia - Department of Economics and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
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Housing Supply and Markets, Regulatory Policies, Land Use Patterns

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Housing, Health, and Annuities

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 17 Jan 2008
Thomas Davidoff
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
Downloads 243 (271,471)
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Insurance, Housing, Aging

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Policy Forum: Vancouver's Property Taxes in Perspective

Canadian Tax Journal/Revue Fiscale Canadienne, Vol. 66, No. 3, 2018
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 08 Oct 2018
Thomas Davidoff
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
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Housing, Property Taxes, Property Values, Vancouver, Tax Burden

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Reverse Mortgages: What Homeowners (Don't) Know and How it Matters

Netspar Discussion Paper No. 06/2015-024
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 27 Aug 2015
Thomas Davidoff, Patrick Gerhard and Thomas Post
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, Maastricht University and Maastricht University - Department of Finance
Downloads 172 (375,183)
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Reverse mortgage demand, reverse mortgage knowledge, reverse mortgage literacy

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As the Nation's Multifamily Goes, so Goes Manhattan: Are Tightening Local Regulations Really to Blame for Reduced Coastal Housing Supply?

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 06 Apr 2007
Thomas Davidoff
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
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Housing Supply, Regulation, taxation

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Citation 18

Supply Elasticity and the Housing Cycle of the 2000s

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 03 Mar 2010
Thomas Davidoff
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
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Housing Demand, Housing Supply and Markets

Supply Elasticity and the Housing Cycle of the 2000s

Real Estate Economics, Forthcoming
Posted: 22 Feb 2012
Thomas Davidoff
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business

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housing demand, housing supply and markets

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Policy Forum: The Prevalence of Low Income Tax Payments Among Owners of Expensive Homes in Vancouver and Toronto

Canadian Tax Journal/Revue fiscale canadienne, 2022, Vol. 70, No. 4, p. 843-859
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 02 Feb 2023
Thomas Davidoff, Paul Boniface Akaabre and Craig Jones
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, Independent and Independent
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Taxation, Housing Demand

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Income Sorting: Measurement and Decomposition

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 14 Jun 2004
Thomas Davidoff
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
Downloads 87 (630,248)
Citation 10

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Optimal Commodity Taxation When Land and Structures Must Be Taxed at the Same Rate

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 1522
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 27 Jul 2005
Saku Aura and Thomas Davidoff
University of Missouri at Columbia - Department of Economics and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
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