The Blackwell Companion to the Economics of Housing

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Chapter 1: Introduction (Susan J. Smith, Beverley A. Searle, andGareth D. Powells). Part One: Banking on Housing. Introduction (Editors). Chapter 2: Housing and Mortgage markets: An OECD perspective(Nathalie Girouard). Chapter 3: Is Housing Wealth an ATM ?:International Trends (Vladimir Kluyev and Paul Mills). Chapter 4: Housing Wealth Effects and Course of the USEconomy: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications (Eric S.Belsky). Chapter 5: The rise in house prices and household debt in theUnited Kingdom: potential causes and implications (Matt Waldron andFabrizio Zampolli). Chapter 6: Housing Wealth and Mortgage Debt in Australia (MikeBerry). Chapter 7: A Survey of Housing Equity Withdrawal and Injectionin Australia (Carl Schwartz, Tim Hampton, Christine Lewis and DavidNorman). Chapter 8: What do we know about equity withdrawal by householdsin New Zealand? (Mark Smith). Chapter 9: What happened to the housing system? (DuncanMaclennan). Part Two: Housing Wealth as a Financial Buffer. Introduction (Editors). Chapter 10: Trading on housing wealth: political risk in anageing society (Mike Berry and Tony Dalton). Chapter 11: Housing Equity Withdrawal and Retirement: Evidencefrom the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey(HILDA) (Gavin Wood and Christian A. Nygaard). Chapter 12: Housing Markets, Wealth and Self-Insurance in Spain (Joan Costa-Font, Joan Gilland Oscar Mascarilla). Chapter 13: Housing wealth: a safety net of last resort?Findings from a European study (Deborah Quilgars and AnwenJones). Chapter 14: 'Pots of gold': Housing wealth and economicwellbeing in Australia (Val Colic-Peisker, Guy Johnson and Susan J.Smith). Chapter 15: Housing Wealth as Insurance: Insights from theUK (Beverley A Searle and Susan J Smith). Chapter 16: Housing to manage debt and family care in the USA(Helen Jarvis). Chapter 17: The Subprime State of Race (Elvin K. Wyly). Chapter 18: The Housing Finance Revolution (Richard Green andSusan Wachter). Part Three: Mitigating Housing Risk. Introduction (Editors). Chapter 19: How Housing Busts End: House Prices, User Cost andRigidities During Down Cycles (Karl E. Case and John M.Quigley). Chapter 20: Is there a Role for Shared Equity Products inTwenty-First Century Housing? Experience in Australia and the UK(Christine Whitehead, and Judith Yates). Chapter 21: Trading on house price risk: Index derivativesand home equity insurance (Peter Englund). Chapter 22: Hedging Housing Risk: A Financial MarketsPerspective (Jonathan Reiss, John Blank, Peter Sceats, John Edwardswith Susan J Smith). Creating housing futures: a view from the market (JonathanReiss). Residential property derivatives: exchange-traded futures andoptions (John Blank). Residential Property Derivatives: The role and relevance ofover-the-counter trading (Peter Sceats). An interim Solution (John Edwards). Chapter 23: Hedging Housing Risk: Is it Feasible? (Steve Swidlerand Harris Hollans). Chapter 24: Housing Risk and Property Derivatives: the Role ofFinancial Engineering (Juerg Syz). Chapter 25: Housing Futures: A role for derivatives? (Susan J.Smith).