TAILIEUCHUNG - A Companion to Urban Economics - Arnott and McMillen - Chapter 11

C H A P T E R E L E V E N Housing Demand: An International Perspective INTRODUCTION Housing markets reflect distinctive national and regional policies and practices. It is important to increase understanding of housing markets and, in particular, of housing demand behavior | A Companion to Urban Economics Edited by Richard J. Arnott Daniel P. McMillen Copyright 2006 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd I CHAPTER ELEVEN Housing Demand An International Perspective Miki Seko Introduction Housing markets reflect distinctive national and regional policies and practices. It is important to increase understanding of housing markets and in particular of housing demand behavior to cope with various housing problems and develop better housing policies. At present the vast majority of empirical studies have been conducted in North America and the United Kingdom. However housing markets can differ significantly among different countries because of housing tenure arrangements housing finance arrangements and the form and extent of government intervention. We must therefore take into consideration relevant national and regional differences when we conduct empirical studies about housing demand behavior in each country. The goal of this essay is to compare Asian and non-Asian empirical housing demand studies outside North America and the UK to highlight the importance of national and regional differences that affect housing policies. In addition this essay also examines more general mechanisms in housing demand behavior housing markets and housing policies in comparative perspective. In the following we focus on the demand for housing services. In section we compare simultaneous decisions of housing tenure choice and housing demand studies from Japan and Sweden. The comparison sheds light on how various differences require different econometric specifications for analyzing the countries housing markets. In section we discuss studies concerning the demand for floor space in Japan and China. Given differences in political systems and 180 M. Seko geographical conditions what are the key factors in determining floor space size and how can we account for these in our econometric analysis In section we first briefly overview and compare several

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