This collection deals with some interesting economic questions related to construction and real estate, namely how construction firms cope with the volatility of construction; whether speculative bubbles or market fundamentals drive those fluctuations; new techniques to predict construction demand; why the office market led the recent real estate cycle; and whether regulation is responsible for speculative behaviour.

About the Author
PETER ANTONIONI Business School, University College, London MICHAEL BALL Director, Urban and Property Economics Consultancy, London FRANCIS CALCOEN CNRS Research Director, Catholic University of Lille, France DIDIER CORNUEL Professor of Economics, University of Lille, France ALASTAIR MCFARLANE Senior Economist, US Department of Housing and Urban Development, USA GEORGE OFORI Professor and Head, Department of Building, National University of Singapore GERBERT ROMIJN Researcher in Public Finance, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, The Hague, Netherlands FREDDIE TAN Adjunct Senior Researcher, Department of Building, National University of Singapore


Book Information
ISBN 9781403915450
Author P. Thalmann
Format Hardback
Page Count 142
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave USA