Housing and Mortgage Markets: An OECD Perspective

The Blackwell Companion to the Economics of Housing: The Housing Wealth of Nations

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 38-57

  Girouard, Nathalie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Effects of mortgage market completeness; Home prices and business cycle in OECD countries; Housing and mortgage markets an OECD perspective; Housing and wider economy and housing and mortgage market link to economic resilience; Housing wealth effects strongest in USA, UK, Canada, The Netherlands, and Australia; Linkage between housing systems and business cycle in countries of OECD; Low interest rates across OECD economies playing an important role; Monetary policy, affecting output and inflation; OECD economies different degrees of resilience over cyclical downturn of early 2000s; Uneven resilience of OECD countries and common economic shocks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875290206     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444317978.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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