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UNINA9910788578703321 |
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Titolo |
The American mortgage system [[electronic resource] ] : crisis and reform / / edited by Susan M. Wachter and Marvin M. Smith |
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011 |
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1-283-89688-5 |
0-8122-0430-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (400 p.) |
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Collana |
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City in the twenty-first century |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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WachterSusan M |
SmithMarvin M |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mortgage loans - United States |
Subprime mortgage loans - United States |
Secondary mortgage market - United States |
Financial crises - United States |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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pt. 1. Crisis : origins and solutions -- pt. 2. Community impact -- pt. 3. Reforming the financial architecture. |
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Successful home ownership requires the availability of appropriate mortgage products. In the years leading up to the collapse of the housing market, home buyers frequently accepted mortgages that were not only wrong for them but catastrophic for the economy as a whole. When the housing market bubble burst, so did a cornerstone of the American dream for many families. Restoring the promise of this dream requires an unflinching inspection of lending institutions and the right tools to repair the structures that support solid home purchases. The American Mortgage System: Crisis and Reform focuses on the causes of the housing market collapse and proposes solutions to prevent another rash of foreclosures.Edited by two leaders in the field of real estate and finance, Susan M. Wachter and Marvin M. Smith, The American Mortgage System examines key elements of the mortgage meltdown. The volume's contributors address the influence of the Community Reinvestment Act, which is often blamed for the crisis. They uncover how the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie |
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Mac invested outside the housing market with disastrous results. They present surprising information about low-income borrowers and the strengths of local banks. This collection of thoughtful studies includes extensive analysis of loan practices and the creation of unstable mortgage securities, presenting data largely unavailable until now. More than a critique, The American Mortgage System offers solutions to the problems facing the future of American home ownership, including identifying asset price bubbles, calculating risk, and preventing discrimination in lending.Measured yet timely and by turns provocative, The American Mortgage System provides a careful assessment of a troubled but indispensable part of the economic and social structure of the United States. This book is a sound investment for economists, urban planners, and all who shape public policy. |
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UNINA9910782203503321 |
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Autore |
Shin Michael E (Michael Edward) |
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Berlusconi's Italy [[electronic resource] ] : mapping contemporary Italian politics / / Michael E. Shin and John A. Agnew |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2008 |
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9786611879013 |
1-281-87901-0 |
1-59213-718-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (182 p.) |
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Voting - Italy |
Elections - Italy - History |
Political geography |
Italy Politics and government 1994- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-163) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Berlusconi's Italy -- The geography of the new bipolarity, 1994-2006 -- Party replacement, Italian style -- The geographical secret to Berlusconi's success -- What went up later came down -- |
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Berlusconi's Italy provides a fresh, thoroughly-informed account of how Italy's richest man came to be its political leader. Without dismissing the importance of personalities and political parties, it emphasizes the significance of changes in voting behaviors that led to the rise-and eventual fall-of Silvio Berlusconi, the millionaire media baron who became Prime Minister. Armed with new data and new analytic tools, Michael Shin and John Agnew use recently developed methods of spatial analysis, to offer a compelling new argument about contextual re-creation and mutation. They reve |
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