Blackwell Companions to Contemporary Economics / Blackwell Companion to The Economics of Housing

Chapter 1: Introduction (Susan J. Smith, Beverley A. Searle, and Gareth D. Powells).
Part One: Banking on Housing.

Introduction (Editors).

Chapter 2: Housing and Mortgage markets: An OECD perspective (Nathalie Girouard).

Chapter 3: Is Housing Wealth an 'ATM'?: International Trends (Vladimir Kluyev and Paul Mills).

Chapter 4: Housing Wealth Effects and Course of the US Economy: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications (Eric S. Belsky).

Chapter 5: The rise in house prices and household debt in the United Kingdom: potential causes and implications (Matt Waldron and Fabrizio Zampolli).

Chapter 6: Housing Wealth and Mortgage Debt in Australia (Mike Berry).

Chapter 7: A Survey of Housing Equity Withdrawal and Injection in Australia (Carl Schwartz, Tim Hampton, Christine Lewis and David Norman).

Chapter 8: What do we know about equity withdrawal by households in New Zealand? (Mark Smith).

Chapter 9: What happened to the housing system? (Duncan Maclennan).

Part Two: Housing Wealth as a Financial Buffer.

Introduction (Editors).

Chapter 10: Trading on housing wealth: political risk in an ageing society (Mike Berry and Tony Dalton).

Chapter 11: Housing Equity Withdrawal and Retirement: Evidence from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (HILDA) (Gavin Wood and Christian A. Nygaard).

Chapter 12: Housing Markets, Wealth and 'Self-Insurance' in Spain (Joan Costa-Font, Joan Gill and Oscar Mascarilla).

Chapter 13: Housing wealth: a safety net of last resort? Findings from a European study (Deborah Quilgars and Anwen Jones).

Chapter 14: Pots of gold : Housing wealth and economic wellbeing in Australia (Val Colic-Peisker, Guy Johnson and Susan J. Smith).

Chapter 15: Housing Wealth as Insurance: Insights from the UK (Beverley A Searle and Susan J Smith).

Chapter 16: Housing to manage debt and family care in the USA (Helen Jarvis).

Chapter 17: The Subprime State of Race (Elvin K. Wyly).

Chapter 18:

Susan J. Smith is Mistress of Girton College Cambridge. She was previously Professor of Geography and a Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University. She is a graduate of Oxford University (MA, DPhil), a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and a member of the Society of Authors. Professor Smith has published over 100 scholarly papers covering topics that range from residential segregation to health discrimination, from mortgage equity withdrawal to spread-betting on home price dynamics. Her books include Housing & Social Policy (1990), Housing for Health (2000), The Politics of Race and Residence (1989), and Children at Risk (1995). She is Editor-in-chief of the forthcoming International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home (2012) and has written a variety of press articles on home prices and housing markets. Beverley A. Searle is a Lecturer in Human Geography at Durham University. She gained a PhD in 2005 from the University of York. Her research interest focuses on housing wealth and households' welfare and well-being. She is author of Well-being: In Search of a Good Life? (2008).

"A valuable addition to the housing, economics, and public policy literature. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate students through professionals." (Choice, 1 March 2011)

"The book is a valuable contribution to a range of significant ongoing debates about the role of homeownership and the extent to which this can form the basis of assets-based welfare regimes . . .The present work provides an important step towards the exploration of these wider dimensions." ( Urban Studies , 1 May 2013)

"A valuable addition to the housing, economics, and public policy literature. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate students through professionals." (Choice, 1 March 2011)