The Burst of the Real Estate Bubble – More Than a Trigger for the Financial Market Crisis
The burst of the real estate bubble in the USA was a key factor of the financial market crisis. For banks, a slump in real estate prices is more dangerous than a stock market crash since real estate is the most important collateral for bank loans and house ownership is much more widespread across th...| Link(s) zu Dokument(en): | WIFO Publikation |
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Austrian Economic Quarterly |
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2010
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| Zusammenfassung: | The burst of the real estate bubble in the USA was a key factor of the financial market crisis. For banks, a slump in real estate prices is more dangerous than a stock market crash since real estate is the most important collateral for bank loans and house ownership is much more widespread across the population than stock market assets. Historical experience shows that there is a close connection between a slump in real estate values and a financial market crisis: as a rule, the former precedes the latter by one year. An important role of monetary and even more of fiscal policy is to prevent at an early stage price bubbles from emerging on real estate markets. |
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