Increased urbanisation poses serious challenges to adequate housing in the cities of the Global South. Many have focused on the issues of access to serviced land, housing finance, and public subsidy in augmenting the supply of low-income affordable housing while ignoring the criticality of...

Housing crises usually go hand in hand with a long lasting recession and a considerable loss in output. We first re-examine the effects of a housing crises on the business cycle based on historical crises. Then we estimate the international spill-over-effects if several huge industrial countries...

Chapter 1 From Impact to Solutions -- Chapter 2 From PE To Big Philanthropy -- Chapter 3 A Rising Tide of Good -- Chapter 4 A Failure in Planning -- Chapter 5 The Giving Pledge Bottleneck -- Chapter 6 Blockage -- Chapter 7 Buried by Wealth -- Chapter 8 Venture Philanthropy at the Venture Level...

This paper provides statistical evidence suggesting that in industrial countries, recessions that are associated with either banking crises or housing crises dampen output far more than ordinary recessions. Using a parametric panel framework that allows for a bounceback of the level of output in...

Housing crises usually go hand in hand with a long-lasting recession and a considerable loss in output. By looking at historical crises, we show that the downturns in the housing markets in the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, and France, beginning in 2006 and in 2007, were followed by...

In the last years a lot was said and written about the “new economy”, term that almost emulated „globalization” in the range of neologisms. This was partly because the performances of the United States economy from the ‘90s, which made many analysts to believe they were in the front of...