This paper quantifies the welfare costs of inflation in an endogenous growth setup when transitional dynamics are taken into account. We report much smaller costs than when these dynamics are omitted.

A large body of literature in real estate has been devoted to the correlation between prices and changes in liquidity of the market (i.e. the ability to sell and buy more or less rapidly). However the specific role of liquidity risk ñ uncertainty in time to sell ñ has not been explored yet....

A new method for estimating total housing returns at a local level is introduced. A unique and comprehensive dataset on housing price transactions for the Paris administrative region over the 1996-2008 period is combined with sets of individual panel data collected by the NSI for a survey on...

This original study examines the potential of a spatiotemporal autoregressive (STAR) approach in modelling transaction prices for the housing market in Paris and its inner suburbs. We use a data set from the Paris Region notary office (íChambre des notaires díÅ’le-de-Franceî) which...

A growing body of hedonic literature applied to the residential housing market has been developed during the last 30 years, mainly in North-America and UK. Office market has undergone several investigations in a more recent period. These studies typically have approached value indirectly through...

When an household needs to change its home, two transactions have to be done: buy a new house and sell the preceding one. To do so, the household can either adopt a sequential search strategy or a simultaneous search strategy. In sequential strategies, it first buys (or sells) and only after...

Housing returns are an important element in households’ housing tenure choices (buy/rent) and investors’ portfolio compositions. Usually in the absence of individual data, practitioners resort to the ratio of the average of rents to transaction prices over large areas to proxy these returns,...

This note explores the persistence properties of a class of models proposed by Jones, Manuelli and Siu (2000) where growth stems from purposeful human capital accumulation. In doing so, we adopt Cogley and Nason's (1995) definition of output persistence. The propagation mechanism exhibited by...