The Housing Cycle in Emerging Middle Eastern Economies and its Macroeconomic Policy Implications /

This paper examines housing finance and housing price dynamics in selected emerging Middle Eastern economies over the past two decades. It finds that (i) mortgage markets have experienced rapid development, which has led to lower private per capita consumer spending volatility this decade; (ii) a do...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beidas-Strom, Samya
Other Authors: Lian, Weicheng, Maseeh, Ashwaq
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/288
Online Access:Full text available on IMF