We host different speakers at our Economic Theory & Policy Seminar. Seminars take place most Mondays at 4pm in Sem. R. DA green 04.  

Upcoming topics and speakers will be posted below.

22. April 2024, 16:00 until 17:00

Theory & Policy Seminar / Georgi Kocharkov (Deutsche Bundesbank) / Understanding Spatial House Price Dynamics in a Housing Boom

Seminar

Georgi Kocharkov will give a talk at our Economic Theory & Policy Seminar.

Georgi Kocharkov, opens an external URL in a new window (Deutsche Bundesbank)

We examine the evolution of spatial house price dispersion during Germany's recent housing boom. Using a dataset of sales listings, we find that house price dispersion has significantly increased, which is driven entirely by rising price variation across postal codes. We show that both price divergence across labor market regions and widening spatial price variation within these regions are important factors for this trend. We propose and estimate a directed search model of the housing market to understand the driving forces of rising spatial price dispersion, highlighting the role of housing supply, housing demand and frictions in the matching process between buyers and sellers. While both shifts in housing supply and housing demand matter for overall price increases and for regional divergence, we find that variation in housing demand is the primary factor contributing to the widening spatial dispersion within labor market regions.

Calendar entry

Event location

TU Wien, DA green 04
1040 Vienna
Wiedner Hauptstr. 8-10, Freihaus Building, green area, 4th floor (Seminarroom DA04 green)

 

Organiser

ECON
Julia Hutter
julia.hutter@tuwien.ac.at

 

Public

No

 

Entrance fee

No

 

Registration required

No

Theory & Policy Seminar / Georgi Kocharkov (Deutsche Bundesbank) / Understanding Spatial House Price Dynamics in a Housing Boom

Georgi Kocharkov will give a talk at our Economic Theory & Policy Seminar.

Georgi Kocharkov, opens an external URL in a new window (Deutsche Bundesbank)

We examine the evolution of spatial house price dispersion during Germany's recent housing boom. Using a dataset of sales listings, we find that house price dispersion has significantly increased, which is driven entirely by rising price variation across postal codes. We show that both price divergence across labor market regions and widening spatial price variation within these regions are important factors for this trend. We propose and estimate a directed search model of the housing market to understand the driving forces of rising spatial price dispersion, highlighting the role of housing supply, housing demand and frictions in the matching process between buyers and sellers. While both shifts in housing supply and housing demand matter for overall price increases and for regional divergence, we find that variation in housing demand is the primary factor contributing to the widening spatial dispersion within labor market regions.