In the field of Housing Economics, filtering is the process by which properties, as they age
and depreciate in quality, tend to be occupied by lower-income households. This is the …

This article examines mortgage forbearance in Freddie Mac loans during the COVID-19
crisis and compares this period to two previous episodes: a baseline and a natural disasters …

An approximation method for the analysis of queues in series with exponential servers,
Poisson arrivals and blocking, is presented. The analysis considers cells consisting of three …

A simple and quick approximation algorithm for the analysis of tandem, split and merge
queueing networks with general arrival and service processes with blocking is presented. The …

We present a class of bulk server queueing models encountered in material handling and
public transportation systems. Customers arrive according to the Poisson process and server …

This paper examines the potential market impacts of continuous forbearance mortgages (CFM).
This mortgage design embeds an insurance contract at origination that reduces the …

NET\ i ORKS WITH BLOCKING Page 1 APPROXIMATE ANALYSIS OF OPEN QUEUEING
NET\ i ORKS WITH BLOCKING by Elias Yannopoulos A Thesrs Sul¡mittecl to the Faculty of …

… I would like to thank Will Doerner, Liyi Liu, Mark Liu, Doug McManus, Jeff Wilson, and
Elias Yannopoulos for helpful comments. Any remaining errors or omissions are my own. The …

… We thank Jeffrey Beal, Jaya Dey, Muriel Fang, Kadiri Karamon, Nancy Morrison, Susan
Wachter, and Elias Yannopoulos for helpful suggestions. Comments are welcome. e-mail: liyi_liu…

This paper introduces a novel measure of homeownership sustainability—homeownership
longevity—and examines patterns of sustainable homeownership across multiple mortgage …