Rethinking Housing Bubbles

by Steven D. Gjerstad

Steven D. Gjerstad and Nobel Laureate Vernon L. Smith demonstrate the critical role that household and bank balance sheets play in economic cycles.

Rethinking Housing Bubbles

Author: Steven D. Gjerstad

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521198097

Page: 296

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In this highly original piece of work, Steven D. Gjerstad and Nobel Laureate Vernon L. Smith analyze the role of housing and its associated mortgage financing as a key element of economic cycles. The authors combine data from both laboratory and real markets to provide insight into the bubble propensity of real-world economic actors and use novel historical analysis on the Great Recession, the Great Depression, and all of the post-World War II recessions to establish the critical roles of housing, private-capital investment, and household and private institutional balance sheets in economic cycles. They develop a model that incorporates household balance sheets and bank balance sheets and offers insights based on this analysis concerning policy going forward, effectively changing the way economists think about economic cycles.

Rethinking Microeconomics

by Joseph E. Stiglitz

The breaking of the housing bubble in the United States led those in other
countries with bubbles to reassess the likelihood that they too had a bubble—
especially as it totally undermined the belief that markets were rational and that
therefore ...

Rethinking Microeconomics

Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz

Publisher: Selected Works of Joseph E. St

ISBN: 0199533725

Page: 1056

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This is the third volume in a new, definitive, six-volume edition of the works of Joseph Stiglitz, one of today's most distinguished and controversial economists. Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001 for his work on asymmetric information and is widely acknowledged as one of the pioneers in the field of modern information economics and more generally for his contributions to microeconomics. Volume III contains a selection of Joseph E. Stiglitz's work on microeconomics. It questions well-established tenets, including many that are so fundamental they are almost taken for granted, covering basic concepts of risk and markets; the management of risk; the theory of the firm; the economics of organization; and theory of human behaviour. Stiglitz reflects on his work and the field more generally throughout the volume by including substantial original introductions to the Selected Works, the volume as a whole, and each part within the volume.

Adam Smith

by Ryan Patrick Hanley

His books include Rethinking Housing Bubbles (Cambridge University Press,
2014, with S. Gjerstad), Rationality in Economics: Constructivist and Ecological
Forms (Cambridge University Press, 2008), Bargaining and Market Behavior:
Essays ...

Adam Smith

Author: Ryan Patrick Hanley

Publisher: Princeton University Press

ISBN: 0691154058

Page: 600

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Adam Smith (1723–90) is perhaps best known as one of the first champions of the free market and is widely regarded as the founding father of capitalism. From his ideas about the promise and pitfalls of globalization to his steadfast belief in the preservation of human dignity, his work is as relevant today as it was in the eighteenth century. Here, Ryan Hanley brings together some of the world's finest scholars from across a variety of disciplines to offer new perspectives on Smith's life, thought, and enduring legacy. Contributors provide succinct and accessible discussions of Smith's landmark works and the historical context in which he wrote them, the core concepts of Smith's social vision, and the lasting impact of Smith's ideas in both academia and the broader world. They reveal other sides of Smith beyond the familiar portrayal of him as the author of the invisible hand, emphasizing his deep interests in such fields as rhetoric, ethics, and jurisprudence. Smith emerges not just as a champion of free markets but also as a thinker whose unique perspective encompasses broader commitments to virtue, justice, equality, and freedom. An essential introduction to Adam Smith's life and work, this incisive and thought-provoking book features contributions from leading figures such as Nicholas Phillipson, Amartya Sen, and John C. Bogle. It demonstrates how Smith's timeless insights speak to contemporary concerns such as growth in the developing world and the future of free trade, and how his influence extends to fields ranging from literature and philosophy to religion and law.

Rethinking Federal Housing Policy

by Edward Ludwig Glaeser

While the provision of excessive and mispriced mortgage debt is the key factor
behind the recent boom and bust in housing markets , the extraordinary nature of
this cycle cannot be fully understood without acknowledging the role that both ...

Rethinking Federal Housing Policy

Author: Edward Ludwig Glaeser

Publisher: A E I Press

ISBN:

Page: 204

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In Rethinking Federal Housing Policy: How to Make Housing Plentiful and Affordable, Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko explain why housing is so expensive in some areas and outline a plan for making it more affordable.

Rethinking Los Angeles

by Michael Dear

The growth dynamic underlying the development of Los Angeles has been the
contradictory economics of the boom . Immigrants , initially from the Midwest ,
were lured by cheap housing and the promise of Arcadia , both constructed by
real ...

Rethinking Los Angeles

Author: Michael Dear

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated

ISBN:

Page: 278

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The Los Angeles region is increasingly being held up as a prototype for the collective urban future of the United States. Yet it is probably the least understood, most under-studied major city in the US. Very few people beyond the boundaries of Southern California have an accurate appreciation of what the region is, who lives there, and what it does. This groundbreaking collection of essays brings together well-respected contributors to dispel the myths about Southern California and to begin the process of `rethinking' Los Angeles.

Rethinking the Financial Crisis

by Alan S. Blinder

No one doubts that the availability of mortgage credit expanded during the
housing boom. In particular, no one doubts that many borrowers received
mortgages for which they would have never qualified before. The only question is
why the ...

Rethinking the Financial Crisis

Author: Alan S. Blinder

Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

ISBN: 1610448154

Page: 376

View: 505

Some economic events are so major and unsettling that they “change everything.” Such is the case with the financial crisis that started in the summer of 2007 and is still a drag on the world economy. Yet enough time has now elapsed for economists to consider questions that run deeper than the usual focus on the immediate causes and consequences of the crisis. How have these stunning events changed our thinking about the role of the financial system in the economy, about the costs and benefits of financial innovation, about the efficiency of financial markets, and about the role the government should play in regulating finance? In Rethinking the Financial Crisis, some of the nation’s most renowned economists share their assessments of particular aspects of the crisis and reconsider the way we think about the financial system and its role in the economy. In its wide-ranging inquiry into the financial crash, Rethinking the Financial Crisis marshals an impressive collection of rigorous and yet empirically-relevant research that, in some respects, upsets the conventional wisdom about the crisis and also opens up new areas for exploration. Two separate chapters–by Burton G. Malkiel and by Hersh Shefrin and Meir Statman – debate whether the facts of the financial crisis upend the efficient market hypothesis and require a more behavioral account of financial market performance. To build a better bridge between the study of finance and the “real” economy of production and employment, Simon Gilchrist and Egan Zakrasjek take an innovative measure of financial stress and embed it in a model of the U.S. economy to assess how disruptions in financial markets affect economic activity—and how the Federal Reserve might do monetary policy better. The volume also examines the crucial role of financial innovation in the evolution of the pre-crash financial system. Thomas Philippon documents the huge increase in the size of the financial services industry relative to real GDP, and also the increasing cost per financial transaction. He suggests that the finance industry of 1900 was just as able to produce loans, bonds, and stocks as its modern counterpart—and it did so more cheaply. Robert Jarrow looks in detail at some of the major types of exotic securities developed by financial engineers, such as collateralized debt obligations and credit-default swaps, reaching judgments on which make the real economy more efficient and which do not. The volume’s final section turns explicitly to regulatory matters. Robert Litan discusses the political economy of financial regulation before and after the crisis. He reviews the provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, which he considers an imperfect but useful response to a major breakdown in market and regulatory discipline. At a time when the financial sector continues to be a source of considerable controversy, Rethinking the Financial Crisis addresses important questions about the complex workings of American finance and shows how the study of economics needs to change to deepen our understanding of the indispensable but risky role that the financial system plays in modern economies.

Rethinking Rental Housing

by William C. Apgar

Expanding the Ability of Rental Housing to Serve as a Pathway to Economic and
Social Opportunity William C. Apgar ... Yet as the debate on whether a “ housing
bubble ” currently exists in selected US housing markets For a good summary of
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Rethinking Rental Housing

Author: William C. Apgar

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Page: 69

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Region Focus

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Selected Publications RF : Are there any issues that you Co - author of
Rethinking Federal Housing are working on ... That is , and Journal of Urban
Economics Supply and Housing Bubbles , ” that partisanship is important
because just came ...

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Michigan Law Review

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( quoting Stephen Brobeck ) ) ; Bruce Katz et al . , Rethinking Local Affordable
Housing Strategies : Lessons from 70 Years ... Dean Baker , The Housing Bubble
: A Time Bomb in Low - Income Communities ?, Nat'l HOUSING INST . , May -
June ...

Michigan Law Review

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Rethinking UCT

by Glenn Goosen

... the university community have seen themselves as sealed within a bubble in
which liberal values are maintained despite ... Taken in conjunction with poverty ,
unemployment , housing shortages , lack of health facilities and pervasive state ...

Rethinking UCT

Author: Glenn Goosen

Publisher:

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Page: 116

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Housing Finance Mechanisms in Thailand

by Sopon Pornchokchai

( 2004 - 2 ) . The Current Housing Finance Situation in Thailand . ... Rethinking
the East Asian Miracle . New York ... Spatial Analysis of Real Estate Price
Bubbles : Paris , 1984 - 1993 " in Quigley , John M . and Stahl , Konrad O . ( 1999
) .

Housing Finance Mechanisms in Thailand

Author: Sopon Pornchokchai

Publisher:

ISBN:

Page: 99

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Comparative Urban and Community Research

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Gilderbloom , J.I. and R.P. Appelbaum ( 1988 ) Rethinking Rental Housing .
Philadelphia : Temple University Press . Glickman ... Goetze , R. ( 1981 ) The
housing bubble , Working Papers ( Jan. - feb . ) : 44-52 . Goodman , R. ( 1979 )
The Last ...

Comparative Urban and Community Research

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Rethinking Suburbia

by Isabelle Lucienne Duvivier

While Andy worked on the remodeling of the upstairs of the house Mme de Wilde
got busy in the garden . ... She attributed her beautiful skin to the many years of
religious skin care with her homemade rose creams , soaps and bubble baths .

Rethinking Suburbia

Author: Isabelle Lucienne Duvivier

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Page: 130

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The World Today

by

He then focuses on emerging housing bubbles around the world , their link with
household debt and the implications for ... Rethinking the international financial
architecture and its governance is therefore a key issue . investments just before
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The World Today

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NBER Reporter

by National Bureau of Economic Research

See E. L. and J. Gyourko , Rethinking Federal Glaeser and K. Tobio , “ The Rise
of the While much has been learned Housing Policy , The AEI Press , Sunbelt ...
Glaeser R. Saks , “ Why Have House Prices 10 E. L. Glaeser and J. Gyourko ,
and a group of Harvard students have of Harvard students have Gone Up ...
Housing Bubbles ” , Journal of Urban licate , but it would be very useful to 3 This
was ...

NBER Reporter

Author: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Determinants of House Prices in Nine Asia Pacific Economies

by Eloisa T. Glindro

J and P Hendershott ( 1996 ) : “ Bubbles in Metropolitan Housing Markets ” ,
Journal of Housing Research , vol 7 , pp 191-207 ... [ 4 ] Ballesteros , M ( 2002 ) :
“ Rethinking Institutional Reforms in the Philippine Housing Sector ” , PIDS
Discussion ...

Determinants of House Prices in Nine Asia Pacific Economies

Author: Eloisa T. Glindro

Publisher:

ISBN:

Page: 48

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The paper investigates the characteristics of house price dynamics and the role of institutional features in nine Asia-Pacific economies during 1993-2006. On average, house prices tend to be more volatile in markets with lower supply elasticity and a more flexible business environment. At the national level, the current run-up in house prices mainly reflects adjustment to improved fundamentals rather than speculative housing bubbles. However, evidence of bubbles does exist in some market segments.

Economic Review

by Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Monetary Policy and the Housing Bubble , ” Speech at the Annual Meeting of the
American Economic Association ... Opening Remarks , ” Rethinking Stabilization
Policy , Jackson Hole Symposium , Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City ...

Economic Review

Author: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Publisher:

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One of the biggest real estate bubbles in history burst last year , triggering a
financial crisis all over the world and sending ... that lasted for the past two
decades is now slowing down and a period of rethinking and reassessment is
emerging .

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