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The term 'housing crisis' has recently been associated with rising foreclosure rates and tottering financial institutions, particularly in the US and Europe. However, in many emerging countries, the housing crisis is about urban poverty, unplanned settlements, overcrowded slums and homelessness.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Background and Overview
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Why Housing Finance Systems Matter
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Review of Housing Policy Instruments
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Housing Bubbles, Crashes and Policy
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Government Failures
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Complexity and Risks
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Sock-Yong Phang is Professor of Economics at the Singapore Management University and holds a visiting appointment at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is also Senior Research Fellow at the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics as well as a Commission Member of the Competition Commission of Singapore. She has spent most of her career studying and writing about housing and transportation economics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Housing Finance Systems
Book Subtitle: Market Failures and Government Failures
Authors: Sock-Yong Phang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137014030
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-01402-3Published: 07 February 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-43677-4Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-01403-0Published: 06 February 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 217
Topics: Environmental Economics, Urban Economics, International Economics, Development Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Economic History