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This is a working paper that talks about asset prices, including housing prices, and how they effect the stock market. It also talks about the price swings in the housing markets of different countries.

This resource describes trending in housing spending and how the mortgage market has changed. This resource will help me learn how the changes to the mortgage market benefit or hurt different groups.

This paper talks about how to identify when the housing prices may be out of equilibrium. Has tons of data from a few decades. May help to compare 1980's to today.

This author rephrases the question of what caused the economic crisis to be: what caused the housing bubble? This perspective is an interesting one because it confirms one of my suspicions that the state of the housing market was a huge contributor to the crisis.

This working paper talks about the connections between the housing market and the business cycle. Has many graphs comparing different countries.

This paper talks about the housing market and how it is not efficent. There are many charts and graphs and tons of data.

Like many other resources, this articles identifies the poor housing market as one of the main contributors to the economic crisis. However, the focus is that this recession is the longest since the Great Depression. I need to continue to research what factors are making this particular recession worse than so many of the others in the 1900s.

This paper talks about behavior of borrows and lenders. It also has models for housing prices and default predictions.

This paper talks about the growth of subprime leanding and its impact on the overall housing market. It has a few interesting charts.

While this article identifies how credit is a major cause of the economic crisis, it goes one step further to describe the cause of the credit crisis, which is greed. This brings up an argument that many Americans played a part in causing the crisis because their greed was overwhelming to the market.

This paper talks about the methodology and models used to help predict future home prices. It also talks about the Case-Shiller home pricing index. Case-Shiller is very respected in the real estate market.