The Housing Finance Revolution

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 414-445

  Green, Richard K ^a,b   Wachter, Susan M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Availability and cost of housing finance how well housing markets function around the world; Cross country differences in housing finance structure; Global average interest rate and home price index; Home mortgages large part of American household balance sheets; Housing finance and global capital market link and interest rate decline worldwide; Housing finance revolution; Integration of housing finance into capital markets global phenomenon; Mortgage backed securities (MBS); Residential mortgage debt outstanding to GDP; Technological innovation instrumental to changes that swept housing finance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888738904     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444317978.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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