Housing, housing finance, and monetary policy
Subtitle: a symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, August 20-September 1, 2007.
Contributors: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
Series: Symposium series / Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City; Symposium series (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City)
Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Kansas City, Mo.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 507
Subjects: Housing -- United States -- Finance -- Congresses.; Housing -- Prices -- United States -- Congresses.; Home ownership -- United States -- Congresses.; Consumer credit -- United States -- Congresses.; Monetary policy -- United States -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: value: Foreword / Thomas Hoenig; value: Introduction / Brent Bundick and Gordon H. Sellon, Jr.; value: Opening remarks / Ben S. Bernanke; value: The housing finance revolution / Richard K. Green, Susam M. Wachter. Commentary / William R. White. General discussion; value: Understanding recent trends in house prices and homeownership / Robert Shiller. Commentary / Christoper J. Mayer. General discussion.; value: Housing is the business cycle / Edward S. Leamer. Commentary / Frank Smets. General discussion.; value: Four images of Ned Gramlich / David W. Wilcox; value: Booms and busts : the case of subprime mortgages / Edward M. Gramlich; value: Housing, credit and consumer expenditure / John N. Muellbauer. Commentary / Sydney C. Ludvigson. General discussion.; value: Housing and the monetary transmission mechanism / Frederic S. Mishkin. Commentary / James D. Hamilton. General discussion.; value: Housing and monetary policy / Stefan Ingves, Kazumasa Iwata, John B. Taylor. General discussion.; value: Overview and concluding remarks / Martin Feldstein.