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Book SynopsisA global look at the reasons behind the recent economic collapse, and the responses to it The speculative bubble in the housing market began to burst in the United States in 2007, and has been followed by ruptures in virtually every asset market in almost every country in the world. Each country proposed a range of policy initiatives to deal with its crisis. Policies that focused upon stabilizing the housing market formed the cornerstone of many of these proposals. This internationally focused book evaluates the genesis of the housing market bubble, the global viral contagion of the crisis, and the policy initiatives undertaken in some of the major economies of the world to counteract its disastrous affects.
Unlike other books on the global crisis, this guide deals with the housing sector in addition to the financial sector of individual economies. Countries in many parts of the world were players in either the financial bubble or the housing bubble, or both, but the
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Editor’s Note xi
1 The Financial Crisis and HousingMarkets Worldwide: Similarities, Differences, and Comparisons 1
Ashok Bardhan, Robert H. Edelstein, and Cynthia A. Kroll
PART I The United States Leads the Housing Bubble’s Rise and Collapse
2 The U.S. HousingMarket and the Financial Crisis 23
Ashok Bardhan, Robert H. Edelstein, and Cynthia A. Kroll
PART II The European Union—One Continent, Many Markets: A Gauge of Government Institutions and Interventions
3 The 2008 Financial Crisis and the Danish Mortgage Market 53
Jacob Gyntelberg, Kristian Kjeldsen, Morten Baekmand Nielsen, and Mattias Persson
4 Prolonged Crisis 69
Thies Lindenthal and Piet Eichholtz
5 The Dynamics of the Irish HousingMarket 101
Simon Stevenson
6 House Prices and Market Institutions: The Dutch Experience 135
Dirk Brounen and Piet Eichholtz
7 Real Estate Boom and Crisis in Spain 157
Antoni Sureda-Gomila
8 The UK and Europe’s Selective Housing Bubble 173
Christine Whitehead and Kathleen Scanlon
PART III Eastern Europe: European Emerging Markets Ride the Waves
9 The HousingMarket in Russia: Lessons of the Mortgage Crisis 195
Nadezhda Kosareva and Andrey Tumanov
10 The HousingMarket and Housing Finance in Russia and Its Regions: A Quantitative Analysis 229
Carsten Sprenger and Branko Uroˇsevi´c
11 The HousingMarket in Serbia in the Past Decade 247
Dejan Sˇosˇkic´, Branko Urosˇevic´, Bosˇko Zˇ ivkovic´, and Milosˇ Bozˇovic´
PART IV Asia Housing Bubbles Past, Present, and Future: Contrasts among Asian Economic Giants
12 Irrational Prosperity, HousingMarket, and Financial Crisis: An Empirical Study of Beijing 271
Lu Ping, Zhen Hui, and Xu Yuehong
13 HomeMortgage and Real Estate Market in Shanghai 295
Jie Chen
14 Evolution of the Indian Housing Finance System and HousingMarket 319
R. V. Verma
15 The HousingMarket and Housing Finance under Liberalization in India 343
C. P. Chandrasekhar
16 The Recent Financial Crisis and the HousingMarket in Japan 357
Miki Seko, Kazuto Sumita, and Michio Naoi
PART V Managing Housing Bubbles and Housing Markets in Diverse Asian Economies
17 Comparing Two Financial Crises: The Case of Hong Kong Real Estate Markets 377
Charles Ka Yui Leung and Edward Chi Ho Tang
18 The Global Financial Crisis and the Korean Housing Sector: How Is This Time Different from the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis? 399
Kyung-Hwan Kim
19 Government Policy, Housing Finance, and Housing Production in Singapore 421
Lum Sau Kim
20 Taiwan: Housing Bubbles and Affordability 447
Chin-Oh Chang and Ming-Chi Chen
PART VI Avoiding Contagion in Other Markets
21 Australia’s Economic Response to the Global Financial Crisis and Its HousingMarkets 467
Dogan Tirtiroglu
22 The Financial Crisis and Brazil’s Expanding HousingMarket 491
Emilio Haddad and Joao Meyer
23 The Canadian HousingMarket: No Bubble? No Meltdown? 511
Tom Carter
24 Partly Cloudy to Clear: The Israeli Economy and the Local HousingMarket under the Storm of the World Financial Crisis 535
Danny Ben-Shahar and Jacob Warszawski
Index 557
