This paper uses firm-level data on 162 large Hungarian enterprises to analyse the relationship betweenownership structure and corporate performance in 1998 and 1999. Cross-sectional regressions are runfor each of these years using the return on assets (ROA) as the measure of performance. Both...

Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Effekte unterschiedlicher Besteuerungssysteme (Ein-kommensteuer versus Konsumsteuer) auf die gleichgewichtige Kapitalintensität sowie das Wirt-schaftswachstum in einer Welt mit unsicherer Lebenserwartung. Dabei wird ein Modell mit über-lappenden...

In the field of housing economics, there is a long traditionof evaluating housing outcomes for the entire populationand various subgroups by tracking four key variables, orconcepts: the physical adequacy of the occupied housingunit, the number of people living in the unit relative to thenumber...

[...]In this paper, we update this affordability debateusing data from the 1990s. We follow Gyourko and Linneman(1993) in addressing the affordability issue by asking asimple question: Is a home of a given quality from ten ortwenty years ago more or less affordable today to a householdsimilarly...

"Von den Zinsen leben, statt vom Kapital", das ist Nachhaltigkeit im eigentlichen Sinne. Und obwohl dies einleuchtend und logisch ist, tun wir uns äusserst schwer damit, diesem Prinzip nachzuleben. Gerade in der Bau- und Immobilienwelt gibt es noch viel zu tun. um dieses Ziel auch nur...

Trafford Hall offers training, support and pump-priming grants to residents andvolunteers in low income communities to help them tackle local problems within theircommunities. Since 1994 when the Centre opened, around 70,000 participants have beenon residential courses leading to action plans...

This report presents some of the mainfi ndings from our research in each areaduring 2005: most of our eighth andpart of our ninth year. It also detailsthe other activities of the Centre. Moredetail can be found in the publicationslisted in Appendix 2, which includeCASE’s own discussion paper...

The paper documents the loca impacts of government efforts to improve housing standards and demand, enhance environmental quality and foster sustainable regeneration within low-income areas. Housing, the ocal environment and physical regeneration were core concerns for Labour as it...

The Government has made housing a central element in itsoverall growth and development strategy. It is one of the keyfactors that will shape the country’s decision on whether to jointhe Euro Zone. Housing shortages and costs are significantfactors in the recruitment and retention of key public...

This report summarises the key issues that arose and pulls together the actions proposed byleading experts at different levels, from the poorest neighbourhoods up to central government.There was no proposed or agreed single line of action; rather there were multiple strands ofthinking that,...