As it has proved difficult to explain the recent US house price boom on the basis of fundamentals, many observers have emphasised the role of speculation. This kind of argument is, however, indirect, as speculation is treated as a deviation from a benchmark. Our paper identifies house price...

Guyana's residential real estate prices have been rising, particularly in the capital city Georgetown, following the discovery of oil in 2015. In line with the growing demand for housing, commercial banks' housing loans have increased, prompting higher household debt. This paper presents two...

This paper presents a complex, modular, 1:1 scale model of the Hungarian residential housing market. All the 4 million house‐ holds and their relevant characteristics are represented based on empirical micro‐level data coming from the Central Credit Information System, the Pension Payment...

This work introduces residential land into a quantitative non-linear model of financial crises devised to study the design and effectiveness of optimal macroprudential policy. The model accounts for news shocks about future fundamentals and regime changes in global liquidity. Results show that...