"This innovative book analyses the role played by real estate markets in global financial stability and examines the fragile link between the two.Through what transmission channels do housing market cycles influence broader economic systems? How has the Global Financial Crisis shifted our view and understanding of these linkages? This detailed book answers these questions in an international comparative perspective. Specific topics cover ..."
"What does the future hold for America's cities and metropolitan areas? This special volume of The ANNALS analyzes demographic trends, housing preferences, crime patterns, economic indicators, and infrastructure investments to examine emerging patterns in the nation's cities. Drawing on research by leading scholars, the volume points toward a growing metropolitan centrality and a slowing-down of the sprawling suburban growth of the last ..."
"What does the future hold for America′s cities and metropolitan areas? This special volume of The ANNALS analyzes demographic trends, housing preferences, crime patterns, economic indicators, and infrastructure investments to examine emerging patterns in the nation′s cities. Drawing on research by leading scholars, the volume points toward a growing metropolitan centrality and a slowing-down of the sprawling suburban growth of the last ..."
Public Pensions and City Solvency (The City in the Twenty-First Century) by Susan M. Wachter Hardcover, 120 Pages, Published 2016 by University Of Pennsylvania Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-4826-5, ISBN: 0-8122-4826-0
"Underfunded pension liabilities threaten the fiscal stability of many cities. While Detroit's bankruptcy has dominated the headlines, the problem is widespread. With ongoing battles in many localities, policymakers are increasingly turning their attention to the legacy issues surrounding the funding of pensions. Public Pensions and City Solvency addresses this complex fiscal challenge and presents strategies to achieve financial sustain ..."
"The definitive account of the housing bubble that caused the Great Recession―and earned Wall Street fantastic profits.The American housing bubble of the 2000s caused the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression. In this definitive account, Adam Levitin and Susan Wachter pinpoint its source: the shift in mortgage financing from securitization by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to “private-label securitization” by Wall Street b ..."
"Available online via SciVerse ScienceDirect, or in print for a limited time only, The "International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home" is the first international reference work for housing scholars and professionals, that uses studies in economics and finance, psychology, social policy, sociology, anthropology, geography, architecture, law, and other disciplines to create an international portrait of housing in all its facets: from mean ..."
"Small and midsized cities played a key role in the Industrial Revolution in the United States as hubs for the shipping, warehousing, and distribution of manufactured products. But as the twentieth century brought cheaper transportation and faster communication, these cities were hit hard by population losses and economic decline. In the twenty-first century, many former industrial hubs-from Springfield to Wichita, from Providence to Col ..."
"The essays in this volume address how residential segregation did not emerge naturally from minority preference but rather how it was forced through legal, economic, social, and even violent measures."
The American Mortgage System Crisis and Reform (The City in the Twenty-First Century) by Susan M. Wachter, Marvin M. Smith Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Pennsylvania Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-4351-2, ISBN: 0-8122-4351-X
Latin American inflation the structuralist-monetarist debate by Susan M. Wachter Hardcover, 178 Pages, Published 1977 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-669-99622-7, ISBN: 0-669-99622-X