Chapter 1 Introduction: Purpose and Organization of This Book -- Part I Housing Markets and the Macro Economy -- Chapter 2 House-Price Dynamics and Effects on the Macro Economy -- Chapter 3 Housing Market Imperfections and Distortions Resulting from Criteria Based on House Floor Space -- Chapter...

Chapter 1 Estimation and Applications of the Hedonic Function of Housing -- Chapter 2 Imperfect information and varying homeownership investments: utilizing deviation from the rational expectations price -- Chapter 3 Appropriate Housing Valuation using Hedonic Price Function and Promoting...

We show that house prices may be driven entirely by the demands of one identifiable group for several years and then by demands of another group at other times. We present evidence that house prices in Hawaii were subject to such regime shifts. Prices responded to demands associated with...