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I am interested in the link between the introduction of mortgages (as a result of a change in the law) and the level of land values.

In particular can anyone help me with the following questions:

1) Are there studies that explore the link in general (ie based on empirical data)

2) Is there specific research comparing the English and central European mortgage laws and practices from 18-20th century.

3) Is there other research that looks at more recent phenomena (for example the effects of the introduction of mortgaging in Eastern Europe or China.

With many thanks,

Arthur Edwards

The background to this is an observation from Rudolf Steiner's Economics Course:

It would make a very interesting study to compare, for example, the mortgage laws existing before the War in the Mid-European countries with the English mortgage laws. In the Mid-European countries it was possible to screw the so-called value of land up and up without limit. The law itself made this possible. While in England on the other hand it is true to say, in a certain sense, that this is not so. Compare the effect on the econom-ic process in the one case and in the other. This would make an interesting subject for a dissertation, to compare statistically the working of the English mortgage laws with those of Germany.

Sie können ja da ganz interessante Studien an-stellen, wenn Sie zum Beispiel vergleichen die Hy-pothekargesetzgebung, wie sie vor dem Kriege war in mitteleuropäischen Ländern, wo man den Grund und Boden in beliebiger Weise hinauf-schrauben konnte, durch die Gesetzgebung selbst bedingt – und wenn Sie in England nehmen die Gesetzgebung, wo der Grund und Boden nicht we-sentlich steigen kann in gewisser Weise, wenn Sie sich da die Wirkungen auf den volkswirtschaftli-chen Prozess anschauen. Doch diese Dinge können ganz interessante Dissertationsthemen abgeben. Einmal die Wirkung der englischen Hypothekar-gesetzgebung mit der deutschen Hypothekarge-setzgebung zahlenmäßig zu vergleichen, würde ein ganz gutes Thema abgeben. 

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