Wit, Erik R. de; Englund, Peter; Francke, Marc - 2010
Housing markets typically exhibit a strong positive correlation between the rate of price increase and the number of … houses sold. We document this correlation on high-quality Dutch data for the period 1985-2007, and estimate a VEC-model that … allows us to study the mechanism giving rise to the correlation. The data identify the flows of new houses offered for sale …