This report documents the establishment of the beginnings of an open access data system that would enable analysis and visualization of headline indicators for the Australian housing market and policy space.

This thesis develops a beta version of a new agent-based model of the Danish housing market, which is well suited to throw light on a range of aspects concerning business cycles and macro-prudential regulation. In particular, the model is employed to analyze the effects of income shocks, mortgage rate shocks and regulation on debt-to-income limits.

Regional communities in Queensland, Australia are the life-blood of the state; contributing more than 80% of exports goods and services, as well as about 16 billion dollars each year to the state’s economy. Weather-related disasters such as floods have become more frequent over the last fifty years in those communities. Between December 2010 and January...

Several independent datasets concerning household behavior in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area are combined to create an agent-based model of the recent housing market bubble and its aftermath. Comprehensive data on housing stock attributes, primarily from local government sources, are used as input to the model, as are administratively-complete data on household characteristics. Data covering...

This paper draws upon three projects exploring the social implications of compact cities espoused in the current metropolitan strategies and explores the approaches employed and assess their success and limitations.