Christopher Phelps
BA Econ (Hons) (Curtin)
Housing economics
Biography
Christopher is currently attaining his Economics PhD at Curtin University supported by the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre 2016 PhD scholarship, and he is a research assistant at the Centre. Christopher previously obtained his Bachler of Economics (honours) from Curtin University and moved straight on to attaining his PhD under the guidance of several researchers from BCEC.
Christopher has so far focused his research on housing economics. Specifically, his honours thesis explored housing preferences, trade-offs and choices in Perth. For his PhD thesis, he intends to explore housing gentrification and filtering and the role these concepts play in housing affordability and income segregation. Christopher is also currently a research assistant on two housing research projects that are exploring housing supply and housing need.
Find out more about Chris’ research and what he enjoys about studying at BCEC.
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Within-city dwelling price growth and convergence: trends from Australia’s large cities
Within Australia’s larger cities, we observe differences in price dynamics across different sub-periods over the period 2001–2016. A combination of housing market cycles, policy reforms and different new supply configurations offers potential explanations. Neighbourhood dwelling prices within all cities and... Read article
Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Housing Supply
This paper provides an analysis of spatial and temporal patterns in housing supply in Australia over the period 2005–06 to 2015–16. It shows that by international standards, per capita housing supply is very strong in Australia. However, housing supply is... Read article
Housing supply responsiveness in Australia: distribution, drivers and institutional settings
Key findings from this report, funded by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI), include the following: A 1 per cent increase in the level of real housing prices is estimated to produce a 4.7 per cent (3.9%) increase... Read article
The Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre team acknowledges the Wadjuk Nyungar people as the traditional owners of the land on which the Centre is situated.