29 Oct 2010

A Guide to Understanding Real Estate Data and Analysis


A Guide to Understanding Real Estate Data and Analysis -

10 Oct 2010

CEO and co-CIO of Pimco, Mohamed El-Erian, delivers the 2010 Per Jacobsson Lecture.

IMF Videos - Per Jacobsson Lecture - "Navigating the New Normal"

An excellent and entertaining presentation by Mohamed El-Erian, touching on many critical issues including the chief reasons of the crisis, the road to recovery and the concept of the 'New Normal'.

IMF Director Stresses Global Cooperation in Uneven Recovery (Watch the video)

IMF Director Stresses Global Cooperation in Uneven Recovery

What attracts foreign direct investment in China’s real estate development?

SpringerLink - The Annals of Regional Science, Online First™

Another interesting research paper that models the determinants of real estate FDI in Chinese provinces. The authors use an interesting modelling technique called the Tobit model, which censores zero FDI observations in the dependant variable.

9 Oct 2010

Modelling Foreign Real Estate Investment: The Spanish Case

SpringerLink - The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Volume 41, Number 3

An interesting paper analyses the determinants of FDI in Spanish housing sector. It is one of the few papers that econometrically model real estate FDI.