This paper is one of four in this Working Paper Series, focusing on financial liberalisation, along with those of Kupiec, Driscoll and Blundell-Wignall and Browne. It surveys recent work, both theoretical and empirical, on the question of market efficiency in various asset markets. A number of...

We provide a brief review of recent developments in research on price movements of real estate, especially bubbles, and highlight the gap between theoretical and statistical approaches to bubble detection. We also propose applying a top-down strategy to a bounds testing method (Pesaran et al. in...