As significant part of national wealth, households' wealth is the central issue in both policy debate and academic literature. Nevertheless, in Hungary little effort has been made so far to conduct thorough evaluation of households' wealth for the last decade. Under the auspices of the plural of...

The housing market is both large and complex. This paper develops a simple model that captures the essential features of the supply and demand for housing, and which is used to evaluate the impact of a range of policy interventions. Increases in the stock of housing would reduce rents and house...

Verfolgt man die aktuelle Diskussion, kann man den Eindruck gewinnen, dass Wohnraum unbezahlbar geworden sei. Doch ist dieser Anschein gerechtfertigt? Wird Wohnen tatsachlich insgesamt teurer oder entspricht der Anstieg der allgemeinen Lohn- und Preisentwicklung? Steigen die Preise in der Breite...