Housing Market Challenges in Europe and the United States

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Housing Market Challenges in Europe and the United States

   • Philip Arestis, Peter Mooslechner, Karin Wagner

   Pages 1-14

3. Housing Markets in Europe and in the USA: What Are the Relevant Issues Today?

   • Peter Mooslechner, Karin Wagner

   Pages 15-39

4. Subprime Mortgage Market and Current Financial Crisis

   • Philip Arestis, Elias Karakitsos

   Pages 40-59

5. Determinants of Homeownership Rates: Housing Finance and the Role of the State

   • Elisabeth Springler, Karin Wagner

   Pages 60-84

6. The Rental Housing Market

   • Dieter Gstach

   Pages 85-108

7. Housing Markets, Business Cycles and Economic Policies

   • Christophe André, Nathalie Girouard

   Pages 109-130

8. European Rental Markets:Regulation or Liberalization? The Spanish Case

   • Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway, Maria Teresa Sânchez-Martinez

   Pages 131-157

9. Fiscal Aspects of Housing in Europe

   • Guido Wolswijk

   Pages 158-177

10. Towards a New Housing System in Transitional Countries: The Case of Hungary

    • József Hegedüs

    Pages 178-202

11. House Price and Other Housing Market Data: a User’s Perspective

    • Anthony Murphy

    Pages 203-220

12. Residential Property Price Statistics for the Euro Area and the European Union

    • Martin Eiglsperger

    Pages 221-238

13. Housing and Financial Wealth in Austria: What Can Survey Data Tell Us for the Analysis of Financial Stability Issues?

    • Pirmin Fessler, Peter Mooslechner, Martin Schürz, Karin Wagner

    Pages 239-263

14. Back Matter

    Pages 264-269

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Housing finance structures and Institutional and regulatory/fiscal aspects in housing have changed significantly in recent years. This book examines the development in housing markets in Europe and the US, and looks at ways to make housing more affordable and housing market developments more stable.

• European Union (EU)
• finance
• Housing Market
• statistics

• Cambridge Centre for Economics and Public Policy, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK

  Philip Arestis

• Department of Economics, University of Utah, USA

  Philip Arestis

• Levy Economics Institute, New York, USA

  Philip Arestis

• Leeds Business School, University of Leeds, UK

  Philip Arestis

• Department of Finance and Management Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK

  Philip Arestis

• Economic Analysis and Research, Department of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Vienna, Austria

  Peter Mooslechner

• Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Austria

  Karin Wagner

PHILIP ARESTIS is University Director of Research, Cambridge Centre for Economics and Public Policy, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK; Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Utah, US; Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute, New York, US; Visiting Professor, Leeds Business School, University of Leeds, Department of Finance and Management Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK.
 
PETER MOOSLECHNER is the Director of the Economic Analysis and Research Department of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Vienna. He is teaching economics and economic policy at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and is a Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the ECB. His publications cover macroeconomics, monetary and fiscal policy, financial markets and Eastern European issues.
 
KARIN WAGNER works as an economist at the Oesterreichische Nationalbank. Since 1997 she has been working at the Economic Analysis Division of the Economic Analysis and Research Department. Prior to being at the OeNB, she worked on various research projects. Her research interests include various aspects of the Austrian economy from a macroeconomic perspective, especially housing market developments and, from a microeconomic perspective, wealth survey topics.

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