The research question of this paper is whether the Dutch housing market is overvalued or not. This is investigated by using different types of error correction models and by examining the impact of different variables that can explain house price changes in the Netherlands. The current financial...

Several house price indices exist for the Netherlands. These different indices arise from different data sources and index construction methodologies. In this paper we analyze indices from the Dutch Association of Real Estate Brokers and Real Estate Experts, the Statistics Netherlands, and two...

The current policy in the Netherlands is that rents in the social housing sector are regulated and do not reflect market conditions. Housing associations are studying the possibility to partly adjust rents to the market rent, or at least they want to have insight in the size of the implicit...

The aim of this paper is to examine the pros and cons of book and fair value accounting from the perspective of the theory of banking. We consider the implications of the two accounting methods in an overlapping generations environment. As observed by Allen and Gale (1997), in an overlapping...