[...]In the first half of the paper, we review the significantchanges in the housing finance system over the past thirty yearsand discuss the implications of these changes for the cost andavailability of mortgage credit. In the second half, we present atwo-part econometric analysis of the...

[...]This article attempts to bridge some of the gap betweenresearch on real-side FDI and work on financial sector FDI bypresenting a selective survey of the literature. We argue thatreal-side and financial sector FDI share many features.Accordingly, there are many lessons in the research that...