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

Contributors -- Glossary -- Introduction : the housing economy and the credit crunch -- The housing boom, the bust and US housing policy -- Housing bubbles and foreclosures that follow : the case of Las Vegas -- Unemployment risk, homeownership, and housing wealth : lessons from the bubble --...

Dieses Buch diskutiert die Rolle der Schweizer Wohnwirtschaft in der Nachhaltigkeitsdebatte zwischen Raum, Energie und Gesellschaft. Im Zentrum des Buches stehen angewandte quantitative Forschungsarbeiten. Diese analysieren mit großen Datensätzen die Effizienz der Ressourcenallokation von...

Housing finance markets in Central and Eastern European countries are typically small in scale and under-developed, though it is generally recognised that fostering housing finance markets contributes to economic development and brings social benefits to the public. This book presents a...