The objective of this research is to analyse the factors that have influenced on housing market in Spain after the beginning of the financial crisis. To this end, this investigation has used a fixed effect data panel covering from 2008 to 2016 for 17 Spanish regions, which has taken into...

This research paper constitutes a first effort to establish a timing metric for the start of construction of housing building permits in Chile, by means of a neoclassical equation of stock accumulation, estimated through a state-space model with Kalman filter. Among the main findings, most...

The aim of this working paper is assessing the predictive ability of different econometric models with forecasting windows of 3, 6 and 12 months, in order to improve housing sales forecasts published by the Chilean Chamber of Construction. To do so, five different families of models are...

The economic and social importance of housing markets justifies, more than ever, rigorous analyses that show clearly the actual situation and the future trend of that sector. This paper aims to provide a preliminary estimate of the economic impact of the construction sector on the Spanish...

To understand the formation and extent of the speculative tsunami that sweeps the coast of the Spanish economy since the end of 2007, it is necessary to analyze the profitability of property sales in the past decade. This article analyzes economic and financial profitability, and the multiplier...

Housing construction has been fueled in recent years by a speculative process that has ended up generating an extraordinary oversupply. The aim of this study is to quantify the gap between supply and demand for housing in the Spanish economy between 1996 and 2007. Different estimates of the...

No one can ignore the importance of financial innovation in mortgage markets. A relevant issue is the choice of the amortization system. This article shows how the French amortization system has reduced the price of loans in the short term whereas price of loans has become more expensive in the...

The economic and social importance of housing markets justifies, more than ever, rigorous analyses that show clearly the actual situation and the future trend of that sector. This paper aims to provide a preliminary estimate of the economic impact of the construction sector on the Spanish...

The economic and social importance of housing markets justifies, more than ever, rigorous analyses that show clearly the actual situation and the future trend of that sector. This paper aims to provide a preliminary estimate of the economic impact of the construction sector on the Spanish...

Housing construction has been fueled in recent years by a speculative process that has ended up generating an extraordinary oversupply. The aim of this study is to quantify the gap between supply and demand for housing in the Spanish economy between 1996 and 2007. Different estimates of the...