Smith, Susan J.
The Blackwell Companion to the Economics of Housing: The Housing Wealth of Nations
The Blackwell Companion to the Economics of Housing will help students and professionals alike to explore key elements of the housing economy: home prices, housing wealth, mortgage debt, and financial risk.
- Features 24 original essays, including an editorial introduction and three section overviews
- Includes 39 world-class authors from a mix of educational and financial organizations in the UK, Europe, Australia, and North America
- Broadly-based, scholarly, and accessible, serving students and professionals who wish to understand how today’s housing economy works
- Profiles the role and relevance of housing wealth; the mismanagement of mortgage debt; and the pitfalls and potential of hedging housing risk
- Key topics include: the housing price bubble and crash; the subprime mortgage crisis in the US and its aftermath; the links between housing wealth, the macroeconomy, and the welfare of home-occupiers; the mitigation of credit and housing investment risks
- Specific case studies help to illustrate concepts, along with new data sets and analyses to illustrate empirical points
- Author(s)
- Smith, Susan J.
- Searle, Beverley A.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 632 pages
- Category
- Economy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781444317985
- Printed ISBN
- 9781405192156