Introduction

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-27

  Smith, Susan J ^a   Searle, Beverley A ^b   Powells, Gareth D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

"primer" on economics of housing policy by Green and Malpezzi (2003); "Risk" distinctively new theme, emerging in second classification exercise; Crest of a wave of home price appreciation; Ethnographic approaches of economic anthropology; Housing a hot topic in economics; Housing having far reaching implications for macroeconomic resilience; Housing, economics, and "Housing Economics"; Microeconomics under scrutiny for its housing marginalization; Mortgage bonds taking the form of mortgage backed securities (MBS); Rising property prices households in English speaking world, and cascade of mortgage innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888759157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444317978.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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