In housing affordability levels and volatility, there could hardly be a greater contrast than between the UK and Germany. Differences in history, institutions and policies are explored in this paper. Residential housing supply has been far more expansionary in Germany and mortgage credit more tightly regulated. A sensibly regulated rental market and stable German house prices have combined to leave the rental sector with over half of tenures. Policy failures in the UK have resulted in widening intergenerational inequality, increased social exclusion, adversely affected productivity and growth and raised the risk of financial instability. Policy lessons are drawn for the UK, which go far beyond the remit of the immediately responsible Minis...
During the period of the Thatcher and Major governments, 1979–97, Conservative housing policy reduce...
This paper initiates discussion on how relevant areas of provision can be definancialised to combat ...
Comparative and international political economy (CPE and IPE) are justifiably obsessed with finance ...
In housing affordability levels and volatility, there could hardly be a greater contrast than betwee...
Over the last 30 years, there have been large differences in the cyclical behavior of owner occupied...
What role do domestic institutional and structural factors play in the emergence of national macropr...
Housing markets have multiple interactions with the rest of the economy and these are surveyed in th...
Governments across the world have faced a difficult balancing act in reacting to the GFC: housing ma...
The global housing, credit and eventually debt crisis that started in 2007 exposed the interconnecti...
This paper will consider the political and ideological background to the ‘ credit crunch’ and will c...
On the eve of the financial crisis, the USA was inhabited by almost 70 percent homeowning households...
This paper aims to assess the sustainability of housing finance deregulation in Britain. It traces t...
The liberalisation of credit constraints in the 1970s for UK consumers has had important implication...
Britain's large owner occupied sector is beset with problems. Large rises in house prices contribute...
This paper provides a systematic empirical analysis of the role of the housing market in the macroec...
During the period of the Thatcher and Major governments, 1979–97, Conservative housing policy reduce...
This paper initiates discussion on how relevant areas of provision can be definancialised to combat ...
Comparative and international political economy (CPE and IPE) are justifiably obsessed with finance ...
In housing affordability levels and volatility, there could hardly be a greater contrast than betwee...
Over the last 30 years, there have been large differences in the cyclical behavior of owner occupied...
What role do domestic institutional and structural factors play in the emergence of national macropr...
Housing markets have multiple interactions with the rest of the economy and these are surveyed in th...
Governments across the world have faced a difficult balancing act in reacting to the GFC: housing ma...
The global housing, credit and eventually debt crisis that started in 2007 exposed the interconnecti...
This paper will consider the political and ideological background to the ‘ credit crunch’ and will c...
On the eve of the financial crisis, the USA was inhabited by almost 70 percent homeowning households...
This paper aims to assess the sustainability of housing finance deregulation in Britain. It traces t...
The liberalisation of credit constraints in the 1970s for UK consumers has had important implication...
Britain's large owner occupied sector is beset with problems. Large rises in house prices contribute...
This paper provides a systematic empirical analysis of the role of the housing market in the macroec...
During the period of the Thatcher and Major governments, 1979–97, Conservative housing policy reduce...
This paper initiates discussion on how relevant areas of provision can be definancialised to combat ...
Comparative and international political economy (CPE and IPE) are justifiably obsessed with finance ...