In this paper, we review the German practice of imputing the costs of owner-occupied housing by increasing the relative … weight of actual rents in the CPI. As the structure of owner-occupied housing differs substantially from that of rental … housing, this variant of the imputation method may cause a bias in the German CPI. For assessing the appropriateness of the …

This study applies a hedonic pricing model to the housing market of the City of Savannah, Georgia. The Savannah …

Knox County, Tennessee. We estimate a version of the Box-Cox (BC) transformed hedonic housing price model, which …

The paper considers welfare effects of rent control when it is applied only in a sector of a rental housing market. In … rent controlled sectors of the Danish rental housing market, we find welfare reducing overallocation of square meters …

years housing construction had not kept pace with increases in the number of households. In response to these developments … and a contraction in construction activity. Recent price developments are not the only economic issue in Israeli housing …. As in a number of other OECD countries, housing policies favour home ownership through tax settings and subsidies for …

Data on housing costs and rental markets for the early modern period are notoriously scarce. We build a database of … on location, physical characteristics of the property, and the identity of the renter, we reconstruct housing costs for …

As the current crisis has shown, housing markets give rise to significant macroeconomic shocks. This calls for their …

This paper quantitatively accounts for the cyclical dynamics of key macroeconomic housing and mortgage market variables … using a tractable, searchtheoretic model of housing with equilibrium mortgage default. To explain these dynamics, the model … constraints. During housing busts, longer selling times spill over into higher foreclosure risk, thereby magnifying the response …

identify behavioural and Minskyan theories of housing cycles as suitable frameworks to theorise the impact of housing on growth …. However, this literature does not provide an analysis of cross-country differences in housing cycles. Third, drawing on the … CPE literature on housing systems, we argue that factors such as private homeownership and mortgage-credit encouraging …

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 …