This paper studies the interaction between inequality and house prices using an incomplete market model with heterogeneous households. The model links cross-sectional household portfolio saving decisions to housing market outcomes. It illustrates a new price formation mechanism in which an investment motive among the wealthy plays a key role. A quantitative application of the theory rationalize...

Is there a causal connection between house prices and labor force participation of married women? The simple correlation between house prices and married women’s labor force participation across U.S. metro areas is positive. Plausible, informal arguments have been advanced to support causation in either direction: prices raising participation (negative income effects of higher house prices lead...

Incorporating spatial econometric tools in Hedonic Pricing (HP) models for environmental valuation has become the standard approach in the literature. The effect of house prices on other house prices is taken into account and usually measured by distance or contiguity in spatial weight matrices. Disaggregate house sale datasets are composed from observations each at a specific location and time...

The paper presents a general method for estimating a country’s level of fundamental house prices and its interaction with actual house prices. We set up a unified empirical model which can be used to analyze the time-series behavior of the fundamental house price and to test various hypotheses regarding its relation to the actual house price. To illustrate how the method works, we apply it to d...

The decade following the global financial crisis (GFC) has witnessed rampant house price appreciation in many cities of developed world. metropolitan centres New Zealand showcase this ph...

This paper studies the impact of foreclosures on house prices in Italy using a large dataset online listings provided by Immobiliare.it, most popular portal for real estate services Italy. We estimate that foreclosure discount is considerable, and this would suggest high degree market segmentation limited spillovers from to non-foreclosed homes. However, exploiting exogeneity entry foreclosures...