Housing Market Challenges in Europe and the United States: Any Solutions Available?

"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"--Provided by publisher. Machine generated contents note: List of Figures and TablesNotes on the ContributorsIntroduction: Housing Market Challenges in Europe and the United StatesHousing Markets in Europe and in the USA What Are the Relevant Issues Today? Subprime Mortgage Market and Current Financial Crisis Determinants of Homeownership Rates: Housing Finance and the Role of the StateThe Rental Housing MarketHousing Markets, Business Cycles and Economic Policies European Rental Markets: Regulation or Liberalization? The Spanish Case Fiscal Aspects of Housing in Europe Towards a New Housing System in Transitional Countries The Case of Hungary House Price and Other Housing Market Data: A Users Perspective Residential Property Price Statistics for the Euro Area and the European Union Housing and Financial Wealth in Austria: What Can Survey Data Tell Us for the Analysis of Financial Stability Issues List of Figures and TablesNotes on the ContributorsIntroduction: Housing Market Challenges in Europe and the United StatesHousing Markets in Europe and in the USA What Are the Relevant Issues Today? Subprime Mortgage Market and Current Financial Crisis Determinants of Homeownership Rates: Housing Finance and the Role of the StateThe Rental Housing MarketHousing Markets, Business Cycles and Economic Policies European Rental Markets: Regulation or Liberalization? The Spanish Case Fiscal Aspects of Housing in Europe Towards a New Housing System in Transitional Countries The Case of Hungary House Price and Other Housing Market Data: A Users Perspective Residential Property Price Statistics for the Euro Area and the European Union Housing and Financial Wealth in Austria: What Can Survey Data Tell Us for the Analysis of Financial Stability Issues . Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 List of Figures......Page 8 List of Tables......Page 10 Notes on the Contributors......Page 12 1 Introduction: Housing Market Challenges in Europe and the United States......Page 16 2 Housing Markets in Europe and in the USA: What Are the Relevant Issues Today?......Page 30 3 Subprime Mortgage Market and Current Financial Crisis......Page 55 4 Determinants of Homeownership Rates: Housing Finance and the Role of the State......Page 75 5 The Rental Housing Market......Page 100 6 Housing Markets, Business Cycles and Economic Policies......Page 124 7 European Rental Markets: Regulation or Liberalization? The Spanish Case......Page 146 8 Fiscal Aspects of Housing in Europe......Page 173 9 Towards a New Housing System in Transitional Countries: The Case of Hungary......Page 193 10 House Price and Other Housing Market Data: A User’s Perspective......Page 218 11 Residential Property Price Statistics for the Euro Area and the European Union......Page 236 12 Housing and Financial Wealth in Austria: What Can Survey Data Tell Us for the Analysis of Financial Stability Issues?......Page 254 E......Page 279 H......Page 280 I......Page 281 P......Page 282 S......Page 283 W......Page 284 Introduction : housing market challenges in Europe and the United States / Philip Arestis, Peter Mooslechner and Karin Wagner Housing markets in Europe and in the USA : what are the relevant issues today? / Peter Mooslechner and Karin Wagner Subprime mortgage market and current financial criss / Philip Arestis and Elias Karakitsos Determinants of homeownership rates : housing finance and the role of the state / Elisabeth Springler and Karin Wagner The rental housing market / Dieter Gstach Housing markets, business cycles and economic policies / Christophe André and Nathalie Girouard European rental markets : regulation or liberalization? : the Spanish case / Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway and María Teresa Sánchez-Martínez / Fiscal aspects of housing in Europe / Guido Wolswijk Towards a new housing system in transitional countries : the case of Hungary / József Hegedüs House price and other housing market data : a user's perspective / Anthony Murphy Residential property price statistics for the Euro Area and the European Union / Martin Eiglsperger Housing and financial wealth in Austria : what can survey data tell us for the analysis of financial stability issues? / Pinnin Fessler ... [et al.].