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What economics has to say about housing bubbles

  • Written by Timo Henckel, Research Associate, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian National University
imageRapid rise of Australian house prices have created disagreement between economists on whether a housing bubble currently exists. Brian Birdwell/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

The b-word is doing the rounds, barely a decade after the United States house price bubble burst spectacularly, setting in motion a global financial crisis. As Australian real estate...

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