Housing bubbles: A survey

Annual Review of Economics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 559-577

  Mayer, Christopher ^a,b,c  

^a The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Housing cycles; Housing market efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051730971     PISSN: 19411383     EISSN: 19411391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.economics.012809.103822     Document Type: Review

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