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This paper investigates the housing and mortgage markets by means of an agent-based macroeconomic model of a credit network economy. A set of computational experiments have been carried out in order to explore the effects of different households’ creditworthiness conditions required by banks...
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In this paper the authors present an agent-based model of a credit network economy. The artificial economy includes different economic agents that interact using simple behavioral rules through various markets, i.e., the consumption goods market, the labor market, the credit market and the...
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This paper proposes a framework for analysing speculative bubbles in housing markets. The formation of bubbles is … autonomous bubbles, and the individual connectivity index identifying systematically important sub-markets. We illustrate our … Melbourne bubble network is an autonomous one, speculative bubbles in the Sydney market are highly interconnected, and show a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924880
This paper proposes a framework for analysing speculative bubbles in housing markets. The formation of bubbles is … autonomous bubbles, and the individual connectivity index identifying systematically important sub-markets. We illustrate our … Melbourne bubble network is an autonomous one, speculative bubbles in the Sydney market are highly interconnected, and show a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927111
We combine a standard stock-flow housing market model, incorporating explicit relationships between house prices, the housing stock, and the rent level, with a parsimonious expectation formation scheme of housing market investors, reflecting an evolving mix of extrapolative and regressive...
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Hong Kong introduced a Tobin property tax—the Special Stamp Duty (SSD) Policy—in 2010, which substantially increased the selling costs of short-term property holders. This study examines the effectiveness of this Tobin property tax in curbing speculation and cooling down the market. We find...
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bubbles”. In this paper, we provide a model-free test of rational bubbles and we apply it to the U.S. housing market. Based on …
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Hong Kong, China's housing market witnessed dramatic appreciations recently, with the price index for private domestic housing units being 3 times higher than 10 years ago. This trend is supported by both internal and external factors, as illustrated in this paper. By providing a theoretical...
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This paper investigates the existence of speculative bubbles in the US national and 21 regional housing markets over …
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In this chapter, we review and discuss the large body of research that has developed over the past 10-plus years that explores the interconnection of macroeconomics, finance, and housing. We focus on three major topics—housing and the business cycle, housing and portfolio choice, and housing...
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