Mortgage Markets Worldwide

Synopsis

Mortgage Markets Are More Than Simply The Means By Which Real Estate Transactions Are Financed; They Are A Key Indicator Of The Level Of Development Of A Country's Entire Economy, In Which Banks Are Able To Manage The Associated Risk, And Where Governments Use Them To Promote Their Social And Economic Policies. China, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Ghana, South Africa, Israel, And Poland Are All Covered In This Book, As Well As Comparative Studies Of The Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Russia, And A Long List Of Emerging Economies. These Represent Both Different Regions Of The World And Markets At Varying Stages Of Economic And Financial Development. The Editors Present An Institutional, Empirical And Theoretical Evaluation Of Different Housing Finance Systems, Presenting A Collection Of Studies That Describe Various Aspects Of Selected Mortgage Markets Around The World.--book Jacket. 1. Emerging Mortgage Markets In China / Yongheng Deng And Peng Fei -- 2. Mortgage Market In India / Piyush Tiwari And Pradeep Debata -- 3. Transforming Housing Finance In Japan In The 21st Century / Miki Seko -- 4. Mortgage Market In Singapore / Seow Eng Ong -- 5. Israeli Mortgage Market: Mortgage Insurance As A Mechanism For Screening Default Risk / Danny Ben-shahar, Gilat Benchetrit And Eyal Sulganik -- 6. Housing Finance And Mortgage Markets In The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia And Slovenia / A. R. Ghanbari Parsa And Mohammad Ali Mulazadeh -- 7. Mortgage Lending Market In Poland / Ewa Kucharska-stasiak And Magdalena Zaleczna -- 8. Secondary Mortgage Markets In South Africa / Julia Freybote And Viola Karoly -- 9. Mortgage Market In Ghana / Callistus Mahama -- 10. Housing Finance In Emerging Economies: Applying A Benchmark From Developed Countries / Ashok Bardhan And Robeit H. Edelstein -- 11. Mortgage Finance In Emerging Markets: Constraints And Feasible Development Paths / Bertrand M. Renaud. Edited By Danny Ben-shahar, Charles Ka Yui Leung, Seow Eng Ong. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.