We review the recent theoretical and empirical literature on the capitalization of agricultural subsidies into land prices. The theoretical literature predicts that agricultural subsidies are capitalized into land prices when land supply is inelastic and land markets function well. The share of...

This chapter surveys the literature on housing in macroeconomics. We first collect facts on house prices and quantities in both the time series and the cross section of households and housing markets. We then present a theoretical model of frictional housing markets with heterogeneous agents...

A noticeable data gap in the evaluation of any property market is that of a residential land price series. Land costs are one of the most significant components of housing construction, however many markets do not have accurate information on such prices. The Irish housing market, more than most...