The whole financial sector has been under a remarkable structural change, and one of the major contributing forces has been the rapid advance in information processing based on digital technology. The purpose of this paper is to model the influence of advancing information and transaction...

According to the contemporary banking theory, it is conceivable that the rapid advance of information technology has shifted the relative competitive status between the market- based and conventional intermediated finance. When trying to enter into the markets traditionally dominated by...

Housing prices and household borrowing are expected to be tightly connected to each other. Better availability of credit eases liquidity constraints of households, which is likely to lead to higher demand for housing. On the other hand, housing prices may significantly influence household...

This paper studies the housing price dynamics in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area (HMA) using quarterly data from 1975Q1 to 2005Q2. First, the long-run relationship between housing prices and a number of fundamental variables likely to affect the level of housing prices is examined. Several...

There are a number of reasons to assume that significant interdependences exist between the financial asset markets and the housing market. Identifying the linkages between stock, bond and housing markets may improve return forecasts in different asset markets. Interdependence and predictability...

Previous empirical research shows that there are strong interrelationships between regional housing markets in Finland. There are many reasons why housing price changes in central areas may lead housing price changes in the surrounding areas. These reasons include structural differences and...