Longstanding speculation about the likelihood of a housing market collapse has given way in the past few months to consideration of just how far the housing market will fall, and how much damage the debacle will inflict on the economy. This paper assesses the magnitude of the impact of housing...

A bursting asset bubble inevitably requires central bank action, usually when it is already too late and with adverse spillover effects. In this sense, the Federal Reserve and other central banks already target asset prices; yet, by taking aim at them only on the way down - as in the current...

Risk-based pricing is an alignment of loan risk pricing with expected loan risk - charging a higher interest rate for higher risk (Yezer, 2002). This article shows systematic relaxation of risk pricing for sub-prime loans during the US housing bubble, a period that extended from 2001 to 2006....

Die finanzmarktbezogenen und makroökonomischen Implikationen von Vermögenspreisbewegungen haben in letzter Zeit zu unübersehbar großer Aufmerksamkeit in akademischen und politischen Kreisen geführt, und zwar bedingt durch die letzten Boom-Bust-Zyklen auf den Aktien- und aktuell auf den...