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Housing market regulation has contributed to the worldwide triumph of home ownership
Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič; Kohl, Sebastian - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 38, pp. 345-352
The present report presents new historical data based on country comparisons and research results regarding rent control and its long-term effect on the home ownership rate in 27 countries. Policy measures of rent control, protection against eviction, and housing space management have been...
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Divergence in the Nature of New Housing Supply
Winkler, Sabine - 2016
The nature of housing supply is critical for the functioning of the housing market, macroeconomic forecasting and policy setting. This study addresses a gap in the cross-country comparative literature by providing novel insights into the nature of new housing supply in 14 countries observed...
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Exploring affordability in the Irish housing market
Corrigan, Eoin; Foley, Daniel; McQuinn, Kieran; … - 2018
This paper examines housing affordability in Ireland by looking at the distribution of housing costs across households. Using microdata from the SILC survey over the period 2005-2015, the contribution of this paper is threefold. First, the paper considers the trends in the cost of housing in...
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A Sustainable Housing Ladder
Cheung, Ka Shing - 2022
Traditionally a young family, usually a married couple, purchases a starter home under a shared title, puts up a deposit and pays down the mortgage with a bank until it is owned outright. But skyrocketing house prices prevent many of them from taking this traditional route. In recent years, the...
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Government-made house price bubbles? : austerity, homeownership, rental, and credit liberalization policies and the "irrational exuberance" on housing markets
Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič; Kohl, Sebastian; … - 2023
liberalization effects of rent and credit regulation as well as homeownership and austerity policies. Drawing on a long-run time … dampening price increases, while certain homeownership and tenant subsidies and government austerity increase the likelihood of … bubbles. The paper illustrates the logic of rent, credit, homeownership and austerity effects with two case studies. …
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Anchoring and Housing Choice : Results of a Natural Policy Experiment
Arbel, Yuval - 2014
This research employs data from a natural experiment to assess the effects of behavioral heuristics on housing choice and public program management. The analysis focuses on programs designed to privatize public housing in Israel. The government programs provided tenants with a call (real) option...
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Loss aversion in housing assessemnet among Italian homeowners
Lamorgese, Andrea; Pellegrino, Dario - 2019
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Loss aversion and residential property development decisions in the People's Republic of China : a semi-parametric estimation
Bao, Helen X. H.; Meng, Charlotte Chunming - 2017
Loss aversion is a core concept in prospect theory that refers to people's asymmetric attitudes with respect to gains and losses. More specifically, losses loom larger than gains. With the capability of loss aversion to explain economic phenomena, some of which are puzzling under expected...
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Property taxation, bounded rationality and housing prices
Elinder, Mikael; Persson, Lovisa - 2014
In 2008, the Swedish property tax was reformed and a cap on yearly tax liabilities was introduced. A large fraction of owner occupied houses was subject to a substantial decrease in the tax. When the reform was announced, most analysts projected - in line with tax capitalization theory - that...
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Property taxation, bounded rationality and house prices
Elinder, Mikael; Persson, Lovisa - 2014
In 2008, the Swedish property tax was reformed and a cap on yearly tax liabilities was introduced. A large fraction of owner occupied houses was subject to a substantial decrease in the tax. When the reform was announced, most analysts projected - in line with tax capitalization theory - that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010391445