Consequences of the Russia–Ukraine War for Housing Markets

We invite contributions to the special issue of Critical Housing Analysis entitled

Consequences of the Russia–Ukraine War for Housing Markets

edited by Mateusz Tomal (Department of Real Estate and Investment Economics, Cracow University of
Economics, Cracow, Poland).

Russia's aggression against Ukraine in February 2022 triggered a significant humanitarian and economic crisis. The former led to a massive migration of the Ukrainian population, especially to Central and Eastern European countries. The latter, because of disruptions in the supply of energy resources, has caused a substantial increase in inflation and a decline in real wages.

To date, little is known about the consequences of the Russia–Ukraine conflict for the functioning of European housing markets. Therefore, the intention of this special issue is to better understand the implications of the war in Ukraine for housing sales and rental prices as well as the behaviour of market agents such as property owners, households and investors.

We welcome theoretical, critical and empirical papers applying mainstream or non-orthodox methodological approaches (e.g. behavioural economics, economic sociology or socioeconomics). However, papers should not be simply descriptive. Submissions may focus on a specific city/country or be comparative in scope. All contributions should have potentially wider policy implications so conclusions must be relevant for readers from different countries.

Critical Housing Analysis publishes only short papers that undergo quick double blind peer review by at least two independent experts in the topic of the paper who are not in close working, institutional or personal relations with the author. Therefore, the contributions to the special issue must be no longer than 3,500 words, including a short abstract and references.

Critical Housing Analysis guarantees that authors are informed of the decision to publish within seven weeks of submission of the paper. The author keeps a right to re-publish the paper in expanded form in a standard academic journal later, but the authorship rights are already protected by unique DOI code from publication with Critical Housing Analysis.

More information on the publisher standards and previous articles published in Critical Housing Analysis are available at http://www.housing-critical.com

Potential contributors should submit an abstract to tomalm@uek.krakow.pl by 15 June 2023. The deadline for submission of full papers to the Special Issue is 30 September 2023. The issue is planned to be released in the first half of 2024.

Full papers should be submitted through http://housing-critical.com/submit-your-paper/ after registration of the corresponding author.