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Housing demand and tenure choice in Brazilian urban areas
Morais, Maria da Piedade; Cruz, Bruno de Oliveira - 2017
This paper analyzes the main determinants of tenure choice in Brazil in formal and informal housing markets. Logit and … good predictors for formal ownership. Education enhances the probability of being in the formal housing markets, either as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012061001
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The effects of macroprudential policies on house price cycles in an agent-based model of the Danish housing market
Cokayne, Graeme - 2019
Following the global financial crisis, many countries have introduced or tightened macroprudential policies. Using an agentbased model (ABM), this paper seeks to measure the impact on house price cycles of two distinct borrower-based macroprudential instruments, namely loan-to-income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012017491
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Chapter 44 Economic analysis of housing markets in developing and transition economies
Malpezzi, Stephen - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 3, …, (pp. 1791-1864). 1999
The purpose of this chapter is to survey recent research on housing markets and policy in what used to be called the … like Mozambique and Laos. It is therefore quite interesting that the bulk of the research surveyed finds that housing … available for housing and other goods and services certainly do vary dramatically from place to place. And the stakes of how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023955
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Residential mobility of the European elderly
Angelini, Viola; Laferrère, Anne - 2010
With the ageing of the European population, the housing choices of the elderly will have consequences on the whole … housing market. In this paper we use data from the first two waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274728
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Gute Absicht - böses Ende: Die US-Wohnungspolitik als Brandbeschleuniger der Weltfinanzkrise
Gropp, Reint E.; Saadi, Vahid - In: Wirtschaft im Wandel 25 (2019) 1, pp. 10-13
Der Boom auf dem US-amerikanischen Eigenheimmarkt in den frühen 2000er Jahren führte zur schwersten Finanzkrise der vergangenen Jahrzehnte. Wissenschaftler haben unterschiedliche Faktoren dokumentiert, die zum rasanten Anstieg der Immobilienpreise beigetragen haben. Kaum beleuchtet wurde...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998316
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Scheitern der sozialen Wohnungspolitik: Wie bezahlbaren Wohnraum schaffen?
Breyer, Friedrich; Hoffmeister-Kraut, Nicole; Wrede, … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 71 (2018) 21, pp. 3-30
Wohnen wird – zumindest in einigen Städten – zum Luxusgut, bezahlbarer Wohnraum zur Mangelware. Die Wohnungsbaupolitik muss drastisch verändert werden. Sollte der soziale Wohnungsbau ausgebaut, die Mietpreisbremse verschärft werden oder – im Gegenteil – auf beides weitgehend...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018008
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A Simple Model of Housing Rental and Ownership with Policy Simulations
Coleman, Andrew; Scobie, Grant M. - 2009
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 prices. A reduction in tax concessions for landlords would raise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115614
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Explaining spatial variation in homeownership rates: Results for German regions
Lerbs, Oliver; Oberst, Christian - 2011
price and affordability of owner-occupied housing, and the regional composition of the housing stock can be identified as … locations. The results of this study offer some interesting implications for housing policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274774
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What happened to the East German housing market? : a historical perspective on the role of public funding
Michelsen, Claus; Weiß, Dominik - 2009
The paper analyses the development of the East German housing market after the reunification of the former German … Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany in 1990. We analyse the dynamics of the East German housing market within … disequilibrium to a large extend is caused by postunification housing policy and its strong fiscal incentives to invest into the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003928716
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Explaining spatial variation in homeownership rates : results for German regions
Lerbs, Oliver; Oberst, Christian - 2011
price and affordability of owner-occupied housing, and the regional composition of the housing stock can be identified as … locations. The results of this study offer some interesting implications for housing policy. -- homeownership ; German regions … ; housing policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011208