This dissertation studies spillovers in urban and housing markets. The first chapter studies the micro-structure of segmented local housing markets. With housing transactions data on 188 U.S. cities from 2000 to 2015, this chapter builds a workhorse model to study house price dynamics that...

1. Real estate (RE) : an overview of the sector -- 2. RE : tools of analysis -- 3. RE in the wider economy -- 4. RE finance : loans, equity withdrawal, and MBSs -- 5. RE as an investment decision -- 6. Demand for office-retail-industrial space -- 7. Housing demand and supply -- 8. Construction...

This collection deals with some interesting economic questions related to construction and real estate, namely how construction firms cope with the volatility of construction; whether speculative bubbles or market fundamentals drive those fluctuations; new techniques to predict construction...