The importance of government incentives for housing savings in Croatia

This article analyses the determinants of housing savings (the contractual saving scheme) in Croatia by applying Vector Autoregression (VAR) methodology on monthly data for the period 2000-2013. The results show that the selected macroeconomic indicators (wages, interest rate, stock exchange index-C...

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Published in:Economic research - Ekonomska istraživanja 2015-01, Vol.28 (1), p.331-353
Main Authors: Baðun, Marijana, Franic, Josip
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Housing needs
housing savings
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Savings
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Croatia
Economic theory
government
government incentives
Housing market
Housing needs
housing savings
Incentives
institutions
Interest rates
Intervention
Literature reviews
Loan workouts
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Macroeconomics
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Savings
Savings banks
Unemployment
Wages & salaries
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