Housing markets have played a prominent role in macroeconomic developments over recent years. For a great part of the … 2000s, buoyant housing markets have contributed to sustained economic activity in most OECD countries. But many markets …. Against this background, this paper: i) documents housing market developments in 18 OECD countries since the 1970s, putting …

The purpose of this chapter is to survey recent research on housing markets and policy in what used to be called the … like Mozambique and Laos. It is therefore quite interesting that the bulk of the research surveyed finds that housing … available for housing and other goods and services certainly do vary dramatically from place to place. And the stakes of how …

-cycle model. The representative household maximises lifetime utility through its choice of optimal levels of consumption, housing … and saving. A key feature of the approach is modelling the consumption of housing services as a separate good in …

-cycle model. The representative household maximises lifetime utility through its choice of optimal levels of consumption, housing … and saving. A key feature of the approach is modelling the consumption of housing services as a separate good in …

interest no longer be deductible from taxable income. We argue that the elimination of this housing tax provision would lead …

This report analyses the main developments in housing finance in the euro area in the decade, covering the period from … housing finance in the euro area with those in the United Kingdom and the United States. At the end, the report briefly …

is smaller. This is consistent with the tendency for such housing tax reliefs to be capitalised into real house prices …, which may crowd-out some financially constrained households from homeownership at the margin. The impact of housing policies …