Empirical results in this study demonstrate that house prices have limited influence over rents in Taiwan. In fact, the impact of house prices on rents is not as apparent as of other factors like the floor (high or low), area, and the interaction of multiple factors such as house attributes like...

This paper uses panel data of 20 high external debt countries selected from Asia and Latin-America to investigate the financial sector development-debt-growth nexus within the framework of an endogenous growth and financial development mechanism. First, we found that among 20 high external debt...

The value of Rent Multiplier (RM) for the city of Taipei has been in extraordinary magnitudes and remains to be a myth to most housing economists. Why does the RM in Taipei exhibit such a peculiarity? Is it because the populace there are so peculiar in their housing behaviours that can be held...