Replication data for: A Real Estate Boom with Chinese Characteristics
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Edward Glaeser; Wei Huang; Yueran Ma; Andrei Shleifer
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Project Citation:
Glaeser, Edward, Huang, Wei, Ma, Yueran, and Shleifer, Andrei. Replication data for: A Real Estate Boom with Chinese Characteristics. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2017. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113990V1
Project Description
Summary:
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Chinese housing prices rose by over 10 percent per year in real terms between 2003 and 2014 and are now between two and ten times higher than the construction cost of apartments. At the same time, Chinese developers built 100 billion square feet of residential real estate. This boom has been accompanied by a large increase in the number of vacant homes, held by both developers and households. This boom may turn out to be a housing bubble followed by a crash, yet that future is far from certain. The demand for real estate in China is so strong that current prices might be sustainable, especially given the sparse alternative investments for Chinese households, so long as the level of new supply is radically curtailed. Whether that happens depends on the policies of the Chinese government, which must weigh the benefits of price stability against the costs of restricting urban growth.
Scope of Project
JEL Classification:
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E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles
O11 Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
O18 Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
P25 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics
R31 Housing Supply and Markets
E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles
O11 Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
O18 Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
P25 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics
R31 Housing Supply and Markets
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