This paper develops a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model with housing sector to study the effect of China’s new policies to real estate market. The model is estimated by Bayesian Maximum Likelihood methods using ten macro-economic time series over the period Q1 1999 to Q4...

This article presents the results of a survey carried out in spring 2012 to determine the level of housing costs incurred by Austrian households. The housing cost survey shows that the share of housing costs borne by homeowners (loan repayment plus operating expenses and energy costs) accounts...

Since its insertion in the Italian tax system, the property tax has been intensely discussed by politicians and researchers. The latters have mainly focused on its distributional effects and impacts on yardstick competition and equity. To the author's knowledge, at least in Italy, none has...

In addition to the increasing rigidity of minimum requirements in regulative law, the federal government and the Länder provide a broad range of subsidy programs to force the refurbishment of those parts of a building, that determine the building’s energetic quality-level. In regard of...

The Singapore housing market is unusual in its high homeownership rate, the dominance of HDB housing, and the extensive intervention of the government in regulating housing supply and demand in both the HDB and private housing sectors. Recent rapid population increases in a low interest rate and...

This paper studies housing markets where a subset of houses in a restricted area is available exclusively to a subset of "eligible" buyers. An empirical part shows that houses on Stanford campus (available only to faculty) trade at substantial discounts to comparable houses off campus. The...

I evaluate the empirical premise and the economic logic of the Dodd-Frank Act's requirement that issuers of asset-backed securities retain credit risk.