This paper examines if US monetary policy responds to asset prices. Using real-time data we estimate a Taylor-type rule with an asset price variable. This variable refers to real estate prices, considering that those exhibit an important share in households’ asset portfolio. Moreover, especially real estate prices seem to have a close connection to monetary conditions. To analyze this link we d...

Feng shui is the scientific knowledge of Chinese ancient. In Taiwan, though some people thought that feng shui is the superstition, we can see the influence on the people's lives including of choosing good days, divination and house selecting. From the past researches, we know many factors affect the real estate price. Those factors are the announced land values, the building room age, building...

A common convention for writing names (identifiers) in mathematical formulas makes poor use of the real estate on the page occupied by those names. Here is a design principle for using space more efficiently. The choice of a suitable notation is a vital part of designing clear and convincing presentations of scientific material. Good notation is precise, concise , and suggestive; poor notation ...

Evidence is shown, using US foreclosure data by state 1975–93, that periods of high default rates on home mortgages strongly tend to follow real estate price declines or interruptions in real estate price increase. The relation between price decline and foreclosure rates is modelled using a distributed lag. Using this model, holders of residential mortgage portfolios could hedge some of the ris...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a grey linear control system for regulating the price of China’s real estate and provide the necessary support to assist the relevant management departments with their policy making. Design/methodology/approach – A grey state equation of the real estate market price that can reflect both the market supply-demand price mechanism and the productio...

In this paper, we will explore the ways in which electronic commerce, the World-wide Web (WWW) in particular, is affecting the real estate industry. Real estate is a promising setting for studying electronic commerce because it is an information-intensive and information-driven industry; transaction-based, with high value and asset-specificity; market-intermediary (agents and brokers connect bu...

Real estate private equity has become an increasingly favored asset class for institutional investors. This topic is important to academic researchers and industry professionals because it constitutes a large part of the global economy. This research paper will lay out a brief background of the real estate private equity industry and will explore the factors affecting real estate private equity...