Extending the controversial findings from the relevant literature, the results from the quarterly transaction-based Nationwide indices from 1974 to 2009 provide further empirical evidence on the rejection of the weak-form version of efficiency in the U.K. housing market. In addition to...

Deutschland durchläuft einen Prozess des demografischen Wandels. In den nächsten Jahrzehnten werden das Erwerbspersonenpotenzial spürbar zurückgehen und das Durchschnittsalter der Bevölkerung stark ansteigen. Wie die vorliegende Analyse zeigt, werden sich diese Entwicklungen deutlich auf...

Seit dem Jahr 2006 haben fast alle Bundesländer ihren Grunderwerbsteuersatz erhöht. Die Grunderwerbsteuer stellt ein wichtiges Mittel der Länder zur Konsolidierung ihrer Haushalte dar. Gleichzeitig können Erhöhungen zu einem Rückgang der Marktaktivität und zu Wohlfahrtsverlusten führen....

The weight of the housing tenancy market in Spain is very low. It is frequently argued that an ineffective judicial system, implying a cumbersome procedure to evict a non-paying tenant or simply requiring a long period to execute a decision, may be an important determinant of the tenancy...

This paper presents a hedonic housing price model for the city of Glasgow in Scotland. The major innovation of the research is the use of hierarchical clustering techniques to identify property submarkets defined by a combination of property types, locations and socioeconomic characteristics of...

Previous work on hedonic price functions tends to have focused on one of a number of specification and estimation issues; namely, market segmentation, choice of functional form, multicollinearity or spatial autocorrelation. The purpose of this paper is to bring together these various strands to...

Recent advances in the theoretical understanding of equilibria in property markets predict that the equilibrium hedonic price function will typically be highly nonlinear. Rather than adopting progressively more flexible econometric specifications to deal with this nonlinearity we adopt an...

A frequent assumption of hedonic price estimation using property market data is that spatial autocorrelation of regression residuals is a feature of the error generating process. Under this assumption, spatial error dependence models that impose a specific spatial structure on the error...