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Subsidies to Electricity Consumption and Housing Demand in Bogotá
Casas, Camila - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2014
account the crossed subsidies included in Colombian utility rates. I use household level data on housing prices, observable … step. In order to study the impact of subsidies on households’ housing decisions, I focus on the impact of changes in the … would in the absence of subsidies, while those who are taxed choose smaller ones. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010946006
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Demographic Factors and the Demand for Housing in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area
Kuismanen, Mika; Laakso, Seppo; Loikkanen, Heikki A. - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 1999
We examine the role of demographics on the housing market in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area (HMA) using the Mankiw and Weil (1989) approach. First, we estimate housing demand for each age group in HMA using cross section data and find that it increases from childhood to the age 70-74 years. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005545926
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Demography and housing demand - What can we learn from residential construction data?
Lindh, Thomas; Malmberg, Bo - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2005
explain why the debate around house prices and demography has been rather inconclusive. Rapidly aging populations in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644683
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Urbanization in China and how urban housing demand can be met
Gottschalch, Sören - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Hochschule für … - 2013
population. This paper contributes to the discussion with illuminating the main drivers of urbanization: (i) migration and (ii …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010982076
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Urbanization in China and how urban housing demand can be met
Gottschalch, Sören - 2013
population. This paper contributes to the discussion with illuminating the main drivers of urbanization: (i) migration and (ii …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322814
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Why is the Hong Kong housing market unaffordable? Some stylized facts and estimations
Leung, Charles Ka Yui; Ng, Joe Cho Yiu; Tang, Edward Chi Ho - 2020
The house price in Hong Kong is well-known to be "unaffordable." This paper argues that the commonly used house price-to-income ratio may be misleading in an economy with almost half of the population living in either public rental housing or subsidized ownership. Moreover, we re-focus on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430033
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Urbanization in China and how urban housing demand can be met
Gottschalch, Sören - 2013
population. This paper contributes to the discussion with illuminating the main drivers of urbanization: (i) migration and (ii …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010190162
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Why is the Hong Kong housing market unaffordable? : some stylized facts and estimations
Leung, Charles Ka Yui; Ng, Joe Cho Yiu; Tang, Edward Chi Ho - 2020 - This version: March 2020
The house price in Hong Kong is well-known to be "unaffordable." This paper argues that the commonly used house price-to-income ratio may be misleading in an economy with almost half of the population living in either public rental housing or subsidized ownership. Moreover, we re-focus on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012195712
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Scientific session "Demographic processes and socioeconomic sustainability"
International Scientific-Practical Conference "Economic …; … - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014233606
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Mortality and Lifetime Income; Evidence From U.S. Social Security Records
Greenlees, John S.; Duggan, James E.; Gillingham, Robert - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Studies of the empirical relationship between income and mortality often rely on data aggregated by geographic areas and broad population groups and do not distinguish disabled and nondisabled persons. We investigate the relationship between individual mortality and lifetime income with a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264236