Der Preisindex für Wohnimmobilien (kurz: Häuserpreisindex) misst vierteljährlich die Preisentwicklung der in Deutschland von Privatpersonen erworbenen Ein- und Zweifamilienhäuser und Eigentumswohnungen. Als Teil eines Indikatorensets dient er unter anderem der Beurteilung der...

This paper analyses the behaviour of prices and supply on the German housing market taking into account the interaction between prices and quantities. A novel price index for residential property prices covering the whole country going back to 1993 is used in a macroeconomic model to estimate...

Recent developments in stock and house prices revived the debate on the role of asset prices in the conduct of monetary policy. The article first explores the links between asset price fluctuations, macroeconomic developments and monetary policy, highlighting the possibility of asset price booms...

This study uses a newly developed bubble detection method (Phillips, Shi, and Yu, 2011) to identify real estate bubbles in the Hong Kong residential property market. Our empirical results reveal several positive bubbles in the Hong Kong residential property market, including one in 1995, a...