Construction and Real Estate Dynamics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • Philippe Thalmann, Milad Zarin-Nejadan

   Pages 1-10

3. Diversification as a Strategy for Minimising Fluctuations in Construction Firm Turnovers

   • Michael Ball, Peter Antonioni

   Pages 11-37

4. The 1985–95 Cycle in Real Estate Markets: Bubble or Shock?

   • Didier Cornuel, Francis Calcoen

   Pages 38-65

5. Estimating Construction Demand in Singapore: Potential of Neural Networks

   • Freddie Tan, George Ofori

   Pages 66-87

6. Lump-sum Moving Cost

   • Gerbert Romijn

   Pages 88-111

7. Rent Growth Control and the Transition of Land to Urban Use

   • Alastair McFarlane

   Pages 112-139

8. Back Matter

   Pages 140-142

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This collection deals with some interesting economic questions related to construction and real estate, namely how construction firms cope with the volatility of construction; whether speculative bubbles or market fundamentals drive those fluctuations; new techniques to predict construction demand; why the office market led the recent real estate cycle; and whether regulation is responsible for speculative behaviour.

• diversification
• dynamics
• growth
• interest
• network
• networks
• regulation
• speculative bubbles
• strategy
• transition
• volatility

• Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

  Philippe Thalmann

• University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

  Milad Zarin-Nejadan

PETER ANTONIONI Business School, University College, London MICHAEL BALL Director, Urban and Property Economics Consultancy, London FRANCIS CALCOEN CNRS Research Director, Catholic University of Lille, France DIDIER CORNUEL Professor of Economics, University of Lille, France ALASTAIR MCFARLANE Senior Economist, US Department of Housing and Urban Development, USA GEORGE OFORI Professor and Head, Department of Building, National University of Singapore GERBERT ROMIJN Researcher in Public Finance, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, The Hague, Netherlands FREDDIE TAN Adjunct Senior Researcher, Department of Building, National University of Singapore

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