Informationally efficient prices are a necessary requirement for optimal resource allocation in the real estate market. Prices are informationally efficient if they reflect buildings' benefit to marginal buyers, thereby taking account of all available information on future market development....

Steigende Werte für Tobins q signalisieren eine erhöhte Investitionsbereitschaft. Höhere Werte für q im Immobiliensektor resultieren aus höheren Bestandspreisen und höheren Neubaumieten. Am deutschen Immobilienmarkt können rund 20 Prozent der Investitionsschwankungen in den letzten 15...

This paper is written in the style of a report from the future (the year 2035), or more precisely, from a possible future, in which Britain has successfully solved its housing crisis. Looking 'back', it tells the story of how this happened, and what the consequences were. It starts with a...

A less well-known empirical finding for the US and UK is a pronounced low frequency negative relationship between inflation and Tobin's q; a normalized market price of capital. This stylized fact is explained within a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model using three key features: (i) a...