index. One explanation of this boom is that it was caused by easy credit in the form of low real interest rates, high loan … rates, mobility, prepayment, elastic housing supply, and credit-constrained home buyers. The modest predicted impact of …

American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications … correlation between density and earnings is stronger in both China and India than in the U.S., strongest in China. In India the …