Australia Selected Issues

Property price inflation has accelerated during the last few years, propelled by low mortgage rates, poor returns from alternative investments, strong employment and immigration, and tax incentives. Strong housing demand has led to a substantial rise in housing prices. Most industrial countries face...

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Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2003
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports
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Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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653 |a Population & demography 
653 |a Inflation 
653 |a Wealth 
653 |a Public debt 
653 |a Real Estate 
653 |a Finance 
653 |a Public finance & taxation 
653 |a Infrastructure 
653 |a Saving 
653 |a Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis 
653 |a Debt Management 
653 |a Housing Supply and Markets 
653 |a Debts, Public 
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653 |a Debt 
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653 |a National accounts 
653 |a Sovereign Debt 
653 |a Property & real estate 
653 |a Consumption; Economics 
653 |a Saving and investment 
653 |a Consumption 
653 |a Prices 
653 |a Macroeconomics 
653 |a Macroeconomics: Consumption 
653 |a Public Finance 
653 |a Housing prices 
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520 |a Property price inflation has accelerated during the last few years, propelled by low mortgage rates, poor returns from alternative investments, strong employment and immigration, and tax incentives. Strong housing demand has led to a substantial rise in housing prices. Most industrial countries face significant fiscal pressures over the longer term associated with population aging and rising health care costs. Significant uncertainty surrounds projections of future fiscal costs. One comprehensive way to take account of this uncertainty for formulating policy decisions is through stochastic simulation