Housing markets and the financial crisis of 2007-2009: Lessons for the future.

An unsustainable weakening of credit standards induced a US mortgage lending and housing bubble, whose consumption impact was amplified by innovations altering the collateral role of housing. In countries with more stable credit standards, any overshooting of construction and house prices owed more...

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Main Authors: Duca, J, Muellbauer, J, Murphy, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2010