Susan M. Wachter

The Great American Housing Bubble

What Went Wrong and How We Can Protect Ourselves in the Future

The definitive account of the housing bubble that caused the Great Recession—and earned Wall Street fantastic profits. The American housing bubble o...

Real Estate Booms and Banking Busts

An International Perspective

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Wealth Accumulation and Housing Choices of Young Households

An Exploratory Investigation

This paper describes the wealth accumulation of American youth and relates this behavior to their eventual housing choices. We develop a data set that...

Latin American Inflation

The Structuralist-monetarist Debate

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Inflation and Pensions

From the Pension Research Council of the Wharton School...

Redlining and Public Policy

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