Showing 1 - 10 of 5,860
Housing policies in Japan after World War II were focused on the quantitative supply of houses with a wide range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441128
China has weathered the global financial turmoil in much better shape than most other countries, including the United States. However, there been concerns that banks loosened their lending standards too much as a result of a huge stimulus, among other factors. This led to excessive lending to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089356
supply of second-hand dwellings looks more flexible compared with that of new ones. However, the expectations of market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012020532
Real estate prices more than doubled in many countries of Central and Eastern Europe from 2003 to 2008. In this paper, I provide the first assessment of whether housing prices in this region correspond to rents, i.e. to cash-flows related to an apartment purchase. State-of-the art panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014203535
We employ recently developed cross-sectionally robust panel data tests for unit roots and cointegration to find whether house prices reflect house-related earnings. We use U.S. data for Metropolitan Statistical Areas, with house price measured by the weighted-repeated-sales index, and cash flows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014219293
in supply constraints and determinants of housing demand. Our empirical analysis shows that supply constraints play an …We study the importance of supply constraints in explaining the heterogeneity in house price cycles across geographies … in the United States. Comparing the equilibrium house price generated with and without supply constraints in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009751696
To the extent that monetary policy influences asset prices, it does so via the demand for assets, by changing the … borrowing costs to purchase assets, or via supply, where movements in interest rates can make investment in assets look more or … less attractive. Fiscal policy interventions can also contribute to bubbles by changing the cost of acquiring specific …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083287
like population growth, and (b) differences in housing supply elasticity. Much of the metropolitan area demand shifts were … related to housing supply, because a lack of supply in some metropolitan areas caused families to migrate, increasing demand … sources of demand—loosening and then tightening of credit markets or trend-following speculative activity. Using a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014254861
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009751106
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010248859