This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of real estate-related taxes that might be imposed in mainland China, in light of the government’s needs for tax revenue and the economy’s need for incentives to develop land. Some policy recommendations are presented, based on an...

The housing system in urban China is now undergoing a process of transition. Housing policy is one of the most popular topics under public discussion. This paper gives a brief review of the recently implemented housing policies and provides some basic information about the current situation of...

Im Mittelpunkt der Euroconstruct-Sommerkonferenz 2005 standen traditionell die aktualisierten Prognosen zur Entwicklung der Bautätigkeit in den 19 Mitgliedsländern des Euroconstruct-Netzwerks: Für das laufende Jahr wird - wie schon 2004 - eine Zunahme des europäischen Bauvolumens um etwas...

Im Mittelpunkt der Euroconstruct-Sommerkonferenz 2005 standen traditionell die aktualisierten Prognosen zur Entwicklung der Bautätigkeit in den 19 Mitgliedsländern des Euroconstruct-Netzwerks: Für das laufende Jahr wird - wie schon 2004 - eine Zunahme des europäischen Bauvolumens um etwas...

This paper examines real property tax as a determinant of tenure choice. The analysis is conducted in two stages. First, parameter estimates for a reduced-form homeownership model are obtained through multivariate logistic regression on data drawn from the U.S. Survey of Income and Program...

A special feature of China’s housing market is land use rights in the form of land leasehold contracts granted by the government. We consider an equilibrium model in which a representative developer may choose to redevelop existing centrally located housing or to develop new housing at the...

China did not adopt a modern Property Rights Law until 2007, which means that most modern real estate development occurred before there was a comprehensive property law to govern it. Moreover, business conventions in China frequently diverge from published laws, and the rules that professionals...

How far do China’s property prices need to drop in order to send the country into a recession? What does this question tell us about the way Bubble Economies work? In this paper, we develop a theory of Bubble Economics - non-linear and often "systemic" (in the mathematical sense of the word)...

How far do China’s property prices need to drop in order to trigger a GDP reaction that looks like a price bubble bursting? What does this question tell us about the way Bubble Economies work? In this paper, argue for a separate analysis of ‘Bubble Economics’ – as the non-linear and...

China’s housing purchase restriction (HPR) policy imposes administrative restrictions on households’ home purchase eligibility to curb speculative demand. We quantify households’ willingness to pay (WTP) to re-acquire such eligibility. The empirical results based on the staggered DID...