Responding to the housing and financial crises: Mortgage lending, mortgage products and government policies

International Journal of Housing Policy

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 23-49

  Scanlon, Kathleen ^a   Lunde, Jens ^b   Whitehead, Christine ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Credit crisis; Government policy; Housing crisis; Housing finance; Mortgages

Indexed keywords

CRISIS MANAGEMENT; FINANCIAL CRISIS; HOUSING MARKET; HOUSING POLICY; MORTGAGE LENDING; STAKEHOLDER; STATE ROLE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952958209     PISSN: 14616718     EISSN: 14733269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616718.2011.548585     Document Type: Article

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