Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung 4: Advanced Topics in Housing-Market-Related Boom-Bust Cycles

Dozent/in:

Thomas Theobald

Angaben:

Blockseminar, 2 SWS

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 15.10.2018, Einzeltermin am 22.10.2018, 14:00 - 18:00, KÄ7/00.54
Einzeltermin am 18.12.2018, 14:00 - 18:00, F21/03.84
Einzeltermin am 7.1.2019, 9:00 - 18:00, KÄ7/00.54
Einzeltermin am 4.2.2019, 14:00 - 18:00, FMA/01.20

Inhalt:

Housing market dynamics have played a crucial role in the creation of the Great Financial Crisis, which was triggered by a bust of the US subprime mortgage market. Central banks have responded to these turbulences in the meantime by developing macro-prudential instruments. The objective of this seminar is to give information about the cyclical behavior of the housing market consisting of house price and mortgage credit growth, its determinants in terms of supply and demand characteristics and its relationship with the business cycle. Students will learn these relationships with the help of economic models. They will apply these models to current countryspecific data to explore which policy responses are efficient to dampen the amplitudes of the housing market cycle. After successful completion of the course, students should be able to approach the related academic literature as well as current policy debates.