Preventing a Real Estate Bubble in Asia: Can Loan Securitisation Help?

Real estate is among the most highly leveraged sectors of an economy, which makes it more likely than others to precipitate a financial crisis, as happened in some Asian countries in 1997-1998. At the recent East Asian Seminar on Economics (EASE) of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), h...

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Main Author: Knowledge@SMU
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/ksmu/348
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1347&context=ksmu
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Summary:Real estate is among the most highly leveraged sectors of an economy, which makes it more likely than others to precipitate a financial crisis, as happened in some Asian countries in 1997-1998. At the recent East Asian Seminar on Economics (EASE) of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), held at Singapore Management University, Richard Green, Roberto S. Mariano, Andrey Pavlov and Susan Wachter presented a joint paper suggesting that asset securitisation could help reduce such risks. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------