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Private renting in Romania
Gray, Patrick Francis; Epure, Manuela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper's aim is to present an overview on the PRS in Romania, emphasizing the main characteristics and the nature of PRS evolution after 1989. The past 20 years reveal some key-changes that occurred in the socio-economic and political life of the country and we have explored them as factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805464
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The Structural Relationship Between Current and Capital Account Balance in India : A Time Series Analysis
Chakraborty, Debashis; Mukherjee, Jaydeep; Sinha, Tanaya - 2010
aftermath of the Southeast Asian crisis, the limitation of the liberal capital regime for a developing country like India is … often highlighted in the literature. However, the probable impact of introducing KAC on CAB in India generally is discussed … theoretically. Though some of the existing studies in India have earlier focused on this research question, they have done so by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014194754
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Socioeconomic Progress Across the Major Indian States : Converging or Diverging
Goli, Srinivas; Arokiasamy, P.; Reddy, Bheemeshwar - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014154852
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Service Sector Led Economic Growth in India and Some Measurement and Database Issues
Saikia, Dilip - 2017
In recent years there has been a rapid and sustained growth of the service sector in the Indian economy. But unfortunately, while the importance of the services is growing statistical data and other relevant information of the services are abysmally low. There are problems relating to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187326
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Public housing units vs. housing vouchers: accessibility, local public goods, and welfare
Leung, Charles Ka Yui; Sarpca, Sinan; Yilmaz, Kuzey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We develop a general equilibrium model of residential choice and study the effects of two housing aid policies, public housing units and housing vouchers. Land is differentiated by both residential accessibility and local public goods, and the provision levels of local public goods are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109274
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Tax-driven Bunching of Housing Market Transactions: The case of Hong Kong
Leung, Charles Ka Yui; Leung, Tommy Tin Cheuk; Tsang, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We study the implications of property market transaction tax. As property buyers are obligated to pay a transaction tax (“stamp duty”, or SD) where the rate increases with the value of the transaction, there are incentives to trade at or just below the cutoff points of the tax schedule....
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Housing market of Almaty
Mynbaev, Kairat; Ibrayeva, Saniya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The housing market is special in that houses are immobile, costly and durable. In this paper we look at the determinants of prices of the housing market of Almaty. What affects the prices of houses and apartments? How was the housing market developing during the economic boom and after the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647407
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The Hedonic Price Function in a Matching Model of Housing Market
Lisi, Gaetano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper develops a theoretical model in which the matching framework à la Pissarides (2000) extended to the housing market is integrated with the hedonic price theory. Market tightness and selling price collectively determine the long-run equilibrium of the economic system in which a seller...
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Measuring the Value of a Moscow Apartment: a Spatial Approach to the Hedonic Pricing of Attributes
Repkine, Alexandre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In this paper we explore spatial effects in a hedonic price function framework for a large sample of apartments in Moscow. We find strong evidence of both spatial lag and spatial autocorrelation. Our results are robust across both the spatial model specifications and the choice of the spatial...
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Expectations-Driven Cycles in the Housing Market
Lambertini, Luisa; Mendicino, Caterina; Punzi, Maria Teresa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper analyzes housing market boom-bust cycles driven by changes in households' expectations. We explore the role of expectations not only on productivity but on several other shocks originated in the housing market, the credit market, the production sector and the conduct of monetary...
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