The paper compares taxation on realization with taxation on accrual in the context of owner-occupied housing. It considers a model where the utility a household derives from housing relative to other consumption varies over the life-cycle. As there are sizeable transaction costs, housing...

Housing markets typically exhibit a strong positive correlation between the rate of price increase and the number of houses sold. We document this correlation on high-quality Dutch data for the period 1985–2007, and estimate a VEC-model that allows us to study the mechanism giving rise to the...

This paper discusses the main aspects of the taxation of housing drawing on general principles of optimal taxation. It focuses on the role of the property tax in achieving neutrality between rental and owner-occupied housing. Assuming that landlords are taxed according to a neutral profits tax,...

Markets for property space adjust only gradually because tenants are constrained by long-term leases and landlords and tenants face transactions and information costs. Not only do rents adjust slowly, but space occupancy may differ from demand at current rent, giving rise to "hidden vacancies"....

We analyze by far the most extensive data base yet employed in estimating capitalization" of below-market interest rates into asset prices: nearly 300,000 sales of owner-occupied homes in" Sweden from 1981 to 1993 with 40,000 including government subsidized interest rates. Our" estimates...

This paper studies banking and financial innovations in a stochasti c general equilibrium model, assuming the existence of two distinct types of goods: cash goods, which can only be purchased by cash, and check goods, which can also be purchased by checks drawn against interest-bearing bank...