Why have housing reforms failed to achieve the desired improvements in housing in the Philippines? A review of trends in government housing strategies shows that while many problems in housing are linked to institutional barriers in the land and financial markets, government reforms focused on...

Der vorliegende Sammelband enthält insgesamt sieben Beiträge zu Informations- und Planungsproblemen in den vier öffentlichen Aufgabenbereichen: Gesundheitswesen, neuere Infrastrukturen, Wohnungsmarktpolitik und Rundfunksystem. Die hier ausgewählten Gebiete, bei denen das Schwergewicht auf...

This paper provides new estimates of the housing stock, construction rates and price developments by city tier in China in order to understand where imbalances might be concentrated, and the implications of any significant contraction. We also update estimates of the size of China's rapidly...

In Great Britain several policy measures have been implemented in order to increase energy efficiency and to reduce carbon emissions. In the domestic sector, these targets can be achieved by improving space heating efficiency and, hence, decrease heating expenditures. However, before...

The contribution of this paper is to offer a rationale for the observed seasonal pattern in house prices. We first document seasonality in house prices for the US and the UK using formal statistical tests and illustrate its quantitative importance. In the second part of the paper we employ a...