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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...
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Residential choice does not only depend on properties of the dwelling, neighborhood amenities and affordability, but is also affected by the population composition within a neighbourhood. All these attributes are capitalised in the house price. Empirically, it is not easy to disentangle the...
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We investigate the sources, scope, and implications of landowner market power. We show how zoning regulations generate spillovers through increased markups and derive conditions under which restricting landownership concentration reduces rents. Using newbuilding-level data from New York City, we...
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Housing, particularly for low income urban households, is a long-standing challenge in India. In 2012, 96 per cent of the all India urban housing shortage of 18.78 million was confined to low-income economic groups. This study empirically examines three facets of urban India's housing demand...
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This paper studies the role of pensions and income taxes in determining homeownership and household wealth. It provides a cross-country analysis, using tax and pension policy designs in Germany, the US and Australia. These developed nations have similar incomes per capita but very different...
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After the high growth of 2006, the first quarter of 2007 also shows undiminished high construction production. Evidence of this is provided by the number of hours worked, which see growth rates in double figures in all fields of civil and structural engineering; yet it is surprising that growth...
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In 2006, after years of stagnating and even significantly declining production, the construction industry finally experienced a year of strong growth (Table 1). In nominal terms, the industry expanded by 7% in 2006. After allowing for price increases, there was real growth of almost 5%, much...
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The sharp slump of the German economy has left its mark on the building sector. Commercial construction has been especially affected by the significant decline in companies' propensity to invest - triggered by the macroeconomic downturn. However, due to the stable development of real wages and...
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Trotz der überaus positiven Entwicklung im 1. Quartal 2007 ist nicht zu übersehen, dass sich in der Bauwirtschaft eine Spaltung der Konjunktur abzeichnet. Der Wohnungsbau wird zurückfallen; im gewerblichen Bau wird man dagegen mit konstant hohen Zuwächsen rechnen können. Das gesamte...
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Die Bauwirtschaft sieht nun schon im dritten Jahr in Folge einer positiven Gesamtentwicklung entgegen. Das Bauvolumen in Deutschland dürfte in diesem Jahr einen Wert von nominal fast 280 Milliarden Euro erreichen. Gegenüber 2007 entspricht dies preisbereinigt einem Zuwachs von nochmals gut...
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