acknowledge the limits of our understanding of asset price bubbles and design policies accordingly …

Emerging market economies are fertile ground for the development of real estate and other financial bubbles. Despite … value in the developed world. Bubbles are beneficial because they provide domestic stores of value and thereby reduce … capital flow reversals. We show that domestic financial underdevelopment not only facilitates the emergence of bubbles, but …

What risks do asset price bubbles pose for the economy? This paper studies bubbles in housing and equity markets in 17 … countries over the past 140 years. History shows that not all bubbles are alike. Some have enormous costs for the economy, while … others blow over. We demonstrate that what makes some bubbles more dangerous than others is credit. When fueled by credit …

bubble. In this paper, we review the stylized facts of housing bubbles and discuss theories that can potentially explain … bubbles. Many non-rational explanations for real estate bubbles exist, but the most promising theories emphasize some form of …

of housing bubbles that predicts that places with more elastic housing supply have fewer and shorter bubbles, with … smaller price increases. However, the welfare consequences of bubbles may actually be higher in more elastic places because …