China's Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing these restrictions for China's internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on...

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...

This article consists in three parts. The first part deals with theory. We evaluate the pros and cons of government involvement in urban housing and of renting versus ownership. In the second part, we summarize the different housing policies that have been implemented in the United States,...

As significant part of national wealth, households' wealth is the central issue in both policy debate and academic literature. Nevertheless, in Hungary little effort has been made so far to conduct thorough evaluation of households' wealth for the last decade. Under the auspices of the plural of...

Although the primary goals of post war housing policy in The Netherlands have beenaccomplished, the Dutch housing market remains highly regulated. This paper develops a staticpartial equilibrium model to investigate the effects of deregulation on the private marketprices and the allocation of...

Der Stadtrat der Landeshauptstadt Dresden hat im August 2015 beschlossen, eine neue kommunale Wohnungsgesellschaft zu gründen. In diesem Artikel wird diskutiert, ob die angeführten Gründe für das staatliche Eingreifen in den Wohnungsmarkt gerechtfertigt sind. Aus wissenschaftlicher Sicht...

In Deutschland gibt es aktuell eine rege wohnungsmarktpolitische Diskussion bezüglich verschiedener staatlicher Eingriffe. Zur Bereicherung dieser Diskussion kann es hilfreich sein, die Umsetzung von Fördermaßnahmen in anderen Ländern näher zu betrachten. In diesem Artikel wird die...

This technical paper provides an overview of the Center for Neighborhood Technology's (CNT) H+T affordability index and its potential application outside of the United States (US), where it has played a prominent role in documenting the relationship between housing and transportation and in...