Curricula and Syllabi in Consumption and Households

Syllabus for a course on housing economics as taught by Qin Xaou at the University of Aberdeen Business School in 2009/10. It covers modelling the housing market: interaction between user, asset and development market; supply of new housing and market frictions; taxation and its influence on user cost; tenure mode choice and household portfolios; housing and the macroeconomy: household mobility and wealth effects; state intervention: rent control and social housing; house prices and transaction behaviour, mortgage market and housing finance.