The paper analyses the current credit crisis and finds that NCM or Neo-Wicksellian models are inadequate to detect the roots of the crisis, let alone to deal from a policy perspective with the problems and the cures. It attempts to rectify some of these drawbacks of the NCM models and in the way...

The aim of this paper is to show that there are clear advantages in forecasting overall market trends and in policy analysis in treating the US housing market as homogeneous. This study differs from the traditional approach and other studies that attempt to deal with US house prices in a...