Converting residential housing into short-term rentals (STRs), through platforms such as
Airbnb, has become a very profitable business, and a tourist-led rentier class has been …

Despite controversy over the meaning of financialization, there are two major dimensions to
understanding whether the city is financialized. This paper explores these dimensions in …

Building on, and going beyond, the state-of-the-art literature, this article aims to advance the
analysis and conceptualization of the financialization of households. It argues that there is a …

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) have been around since 1960 but have only become
major players in housing markets in the last twenty years. The current and ongoing wave of …

A key insight of dependency theorists such as Vania Bambirra and Ruy Mauro Marini was
that dependency is not confined to an international relations phenomenon of unequal …

Using data of listed real estate firms (REFs) in China, we examine how macro-prudential
policy affects their systemic risk. Employing a two-dimensional measure of systemic risk …

Mortgage credit has been central in fuelling housing market dynamics in many countries.
While mortgage debt and house price increases used to go hand in hand, we see an …

The extensive research on financialisation of housing and lively public and political debate
on its negative implications for housing affordability have translated into surprisingly modest …

This article contributes to the emerging literature on the post-global-financial-crisis wave of
financialization of housing 2.0 by furthering the understanding of how the national …

This article puts forward a narrow definition of state financialisation as a mode of
governance whereby the state engineers and re-purposes financial tools and markets as …