Explaining the U.S. Housing Bubble: Are CDOs to Blame?

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Bernardin
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2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-308
Author(s):  
Are Oust ◽  
◽  
Ole Martin Eidjord ◽  

The aim of this paper is to test whether Google search volume indices can be used to predict house prices and identify bubbles in the housing market. We analyze the data that pertain to the 2006?2007 U.S. housing bubble, taking advantage of the heterogeneous house price development in both bubble and non-bubble states in the U.S. Using 204 housing-related keywords, we test both single search terms and indices that comprise search term sets to see whether they can be used as housing bubble indicators. We find that several keywords perform very well as bubble indicators. Among all of the keywords and indices tested, the Google search volume for ¡§Housing Bubble¡¨ and ¡§Real Estate Agent¡¨, and a constructed index that contains the twelve best-performing search terms score the highest at both detecting bubbles and not erroneously detecting non-bubble states as bubbles. A new housing bubble indicator may help households, investors, and policy makers receive advanced warning about future housing bubbles. Moreover, we show that the Google search outperforms the well-established consumer confidence index in the U.S. as a leading indicator of the housing market.


2018 ◽  
Vol 193 ◽  
pp. 05044
Author(s):  
Van Khai Tran

Unlike the crisis in the U.S. which mainly started from the secondary investors and financial system, a great part of Vietnam’s housing bubble was caused by the primary investors. When businesses in Vietnam made lower profits, this led to rush investments in the real estate market, even from those primary investors who are newly established, have a lack of professionalism in housing development and knowledge of urban economics. Many of their projects were not possible to implement, leaving the market frozen with huge numbers of empty plots, houses and apartments. The review of urban sociology theories combining with deep analysis of the situation of Vietnam and the U.S had clarified the causes of the housing crisis in Vietnam. Many housing projects in the country are prepared without incorporating certain physical and social factors, leading to the lack of feasibility, and therefore, largely seen as the origin of the housing crisis. The proposed solution of this research was to incorporate physical and social factors in the projects represented by the correct selection of the appropriate housing status and dwelling quality for each social group.


2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-79
Author(s):  
Michael Insler ◽  
Kurtis Swope

Author(s):  
R. D. Heidenreich

This program has been organized by the EMSA to commensurate the 50th anniversary of the experimental verification of the wave nature of the electron. Davisson and Germer in the U.S. and Thomson and Reid in Britian accomplished this at about the same time. Their findings were published in Nature in 1927 by mutual agreement since their independent efforts had led to the same conclusion at about the same time. In 1937 Davisson and Thomson shared the Nobel Prize in physics for demonstrating the wave nature of the electron deduced in 1924 by Louis de Broglie.The Davisson experiments (1921-1927) were concerned with the angular distribution of secondary electron emission from nickel surfaces produced by 150 volt primary electrons. The motivation was the effect of secondary emission on the characteristics of vacuum tubes but significant deviations from the results expected for a corpuscular electron led to a diffraction interpretation suggested by Elasser in 1925.


Author(s):  
Eugene J. Amaral

Examination of sand grain surfaces from early Paleozoic sandstones by electron microscopy reveals a variety of secondary effects caused by rock-forming processes after final deposition of the sand. Detailed studies were conducted on both coarse (≥0.71mm) and fine (=0.25mm) fractions of St. Peter Sandstone, a widespread sand deposit underlying much of the U.S. Central Interior and used in the glass industry because of its remarkably high silica purity.The very friable sandstone was disaggregated and sieved to obtain the two size fractions, and then cleaned by boiling in HCl to remove any iron impurities and rinsed in distilled water. The sand grains were then partially embedded by sprinkling them onto a glass slide coated with a thin tacky layer of latex. Direct platinum shadowed carbon replicas were made of the exposed sand grain surfaces, and were separated by dissolution of the silica in HF acid.


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