Ten years after the worldwide financial and economic crisis was triggered by the American real estate market, real estate prices are rising around the globe. Concerns about a new housing bubble are growing. The present report based on OECD data for 20 countries demonstrates that this concern is...

Loan purchase and securitization by Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and private-label commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) grew rapidly during the 1990s and accounted for more than one-half of the net growth in multifamily debt over the decade. By facilitating the integration of the multifamily...

This study analyses the performance of real estate mutual funds for 1993 through 2001 period. The results indicate that real estate mutual funds do not provide positive abnormal performance on average. Fund performance to a large extent is determined by the performance of the real estate sector...

This paper investigates the relationships of capital market, severity of economic contraction, and probability of an economic downturn. The finding supports a theoretical prediction that countries with more advanced capital markets would face less severe business cycle output contraction, and a...

This paper investigates the relationships of capital markets, frequency of recession, and fraction of time the economy is in recession. The main finding is that frequency of recession is not robustly linked to measures of capital market development. However, the fraction of time the economy...

Die Immobilienpreise in Deutschland sind bis zuletzt weiter gestiegen. Eigenheime und Eigentumswohnungen waren in den untersuchten 97 Städten Deutschlands im laufenden Jahr im Durchschnitt elf Prozent teurer als noch vor einem Jahr. Auch die Mieten stiegen, allerdings deutlich weniger. Mieten...

Auf dem deutschen Immobilienmarkt hat sich das Blatt gewendet. Die Finanzierungskonditionen haben sich deutlich verschlechtert. Die spekulative Preisblase des letzten Jahrzehnts ist geplatzt. Die Immobilienpreise fallen: Baugrundstücke, Eigenheime und Eigentumswohnungen waren in über 150...

In this paper R2-type measures of the explanatory power of multivariate linear and categorical probit models proposed in the literature are reviewed and their deficiencies are discussed. It is argued that a measure of the explanatory power should take into account the components which are...

This paper compares conventional GMM estimators to empirical likelihood based GMM estimators which employ a semiparametric efficient estimate of the unknown distribution function of the data. One-step, two-step and bootstrap empirical likelihood and conventional GMM estimators are considered...