This paper investigates the causality relationship between sale price and trading volume under housing presale system by using the data of existing house price, presale house price, trading volume, and the number of new construction from 1993Q1 to 2010Q4 in four spatial housing submarkets,...

In the literature on microeconomics regarding tenure choice documentation, house price is usually viewed as one of the most important parameters. Taiwan experienced very dramatic real estate cycles in the past several decades. However, the homeownership rates looked quite stable and consistently...

With an annual growth rate of 0.62 per cent since 1980, Taiwan's homeownership rate reached 88 per cent in 2007. This study explores possible causes of Taiwan's high homeownership rates. The institutional and economic context for tenure choice in Taiwan is reviewed, paying particular attention...

Dependency rate is an indicator of demographic structure which usually be used to measure the pressure on productive population. A high dependency ratio can cause serious problems for a country if a large proportion of a government's expenditure is on health, social security and education, which...