Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective
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Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Kenneth Snowden, Eugene N. White, and Price Fishback
1. A Historiography of Early NBER Housing and Mortgage Research
Kenneth Snowden
I. Housing and the Interwar Business Cycles
2. The Interwar Housing Cycle in the Light of 2001?2012: A Comparative HistoricalPerspective
Alexander J. Field
3. Consumption and Investment Booms in the 1920s and Their Collapse in 1930
Steven Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith
4. Lessons from the Great American Real Estate Boom and Bust of the 1920s
Eugene N. White
II. A Closer Look at the Interwar Housing Crisis
5. The 1920s American Real Estate Boom and the Downturn of the Great Depression: Evidence from City Cross-Sections
Michael Brocker and Christopher Hanes
6. New Multicity Estimates of the Changes in Home Values, 1920?1940
Price Fishback and Trevor Kollmann
7. The Prolonged Resolution of Troubled Real Estate Lenders during the 1930s
Jonathan D. Rose
III. Securitization in Earlier Times
8. Dutch Securities for American Land Speculation in the Late Eighteenth Century
Rik Frehen, William N. Goetzmann, and K. Geert Rouwenhorst
9. Lending to Lemons: Landschaft Credit in Eighteenth-Century Prussia
Kirsten Wandschneider
IV. Postwar Housing Policies
10. The Twentieth-Century Increase in US Home Ownership: Facts and Hypotheses
Daniel K. Fetter
11. Did Housing Policies Cause the Postwar Boom in Home Ownership?
Matthew Chambers, Carlos Garriga, and Don E. Schlagenhauf
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index
Introduction
Kenneth Snowden, Eugene N. White, and Price Fishback
1. A Historiography of Early NBER Housing and Mortgage Research
Kenneth Snowden
I. Housing and the Interwar Business Cycles
2. The Interwar Housing Cycle in the Light of 2001?2012: A Comparative HistoricalPerspective
Alexander J. Field
3. Consumption and Investment Booms in the 1920s and Their Collapse in 1930
Steven Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith
4. Lessons from the Great American Real Estate Boom and Bust of the 1920s
Eugene N. White
II. A Closer Look at the Interwar Housing Crisis
5. The 1920s American Real Estate Boom and the Downturn of the Great Depression: Evidence from City Cross-Sections
Michael Brocker and Christopher Hanes
6. New Multicity Estimates of the Changes in Home Values, 1920?1940
Price Fishback and Trevor Kollmann
7. The Prolonged Resolution of Troubled Real Estate Lenders during the 1930s
Jonathan D. Rose
III. Securitization in Earlier Times
8. Dutch Securities for American Land Speculation in the Late Eighteenth Century
Rik Frehen, William N. Goetzmann, and K. Geert Rouwenhorst
9. Lending to Lemons: Landschaft Credit in Eighteenth-Century Prussia
Kirsten Wandschneider
IV. Postwar Housing Policies
10. The Twentieth-Century Increase in US Home Ownership: Facts and Hypotheses
Daniel K. Fetter
11. Did Housing Policies Cause the Postwar Boom in Home Ownership?
Matthew Chambers, Carlos Garriga, and Don E. Schlagenhauf
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index
Review Quotes
EH.net
“There is much to be learned here. Even readers who are experts in some areas covered by this volume will find their horizons expanded by the studies’ collective range and depth.”
Housing Studies
“It is always interesting, and sometimes useful, to compare our current situation with that of the past. . . . Together, the papers [in Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective] persuasively indicate major lines of historical similarity and difference. Focused on the earlier crisis, they are now an indispensable starting point for understanding that time.”
Journal of Economic History
“Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective is a must read. The book assembles a collection of recent works from leading scholars on the historical development of housing and mortgage markets. Together, the articles shed rich, new insights.”
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