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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788221003321

Autore

Beidas-Strom Samya

Titolo

The Housing Cycle in Emerging Middle Eastern Economies and its Macroeconomic Policy Implications / / Samya Beidas-Strom, Weicheng Lian, Ashwaq Maseeh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

1-4623-1438-4

9786612844751

1-282-84475-X

1-4527-2482-2

1-4518-7433-2

Descrizione fisica

29 p. : ill

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

LianWeicheng

MaseehAshwaq

Soggetti

Housing - Finance - Middle East

Housing - Prices - Middle East

Infrastructure

Macroeconomics

Real Estate

Industries: Financial Services

Housing Supply and Markets

Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis

Housing

Banks

Depository Institutions

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Saving

Wealth

Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Property & real estate

Finance

Economic growth

Housing prices

Consumption

Business cycles



Prices

Saving and investment

Economics

Kuwait

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This paper examines housing finance and housing price dynamics in selected emerging Middle Eastern economies over the past two decades. It finds that (i) mortgage markets have experienced rapid development, which has led to lower private per capita consumer spending volatility this decade; (ii) a downward price correction occurred in the housing market after 2007, which appears to have bottomed out; (iii) the rental market appears to be largely determined by region-specific economic fundamentals-a youthful working-age population and wealth variables; and (iv) a segregation between self-owned house and rental price dynamics exists in this region, rendering the former more sensitive to the business cycle.