October 5, 2016
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
- In an article titled Episodes of Exuberance in Housing Markets: In Search of the Smoking Gun, examine changes in the time series properties of three widely used housing market indicators (real house prices, price-to-income ratios, and price-to-rent ratios) for a large set of countries to detect episodes of explosive dynamics.
- In an article titled, On the Directional Accuracy of United States Housing Starts Forecasts: Evidence from Survey Data, the author uses data from both the Survey of Professional Forecasters and the Livingston Survey to study the directional accuracy of United States housing starts forecasts.
- A report titled, The Very Poor and the Affordability of Housing, presents facts on the affordability of housing for those at risk of the most serious form of housing crisis, namely, the threat of homelessness.
- An article titled, Misbehavior and Mistake in Bankruptcy Mortgage Claims: Some Caveats Regarding the Porter Study, reviews the comprehensive empirical study of the bankruptcy mortgage foreclosure process conducted by Professor Katherine Porter and subsequently published in 2008 in the Texas Law Review.
