The Interwar Housing Cycle in the Light of 2001-2011: A Comparative Historical Approach

Alexander J. Field

NBER Working Paper No. 18796
Issued in February 2013

---- Acknowledgments ----

I am grateful for comments from Michael Bordo, Jean-Jacques Dethier, Price Fishback, Fred Foldvary, Mason Gaffney, Steven Gjerstad, Leslie Hannah, Eric Hilt, Natacha Postel-Vinay, Gary Richardson, Ken Snowden, Bill Sundstrom, Richard Sylla, Eugene White, Larry White, Gavin Wright, and other participants at the NBER Universities Research Conference on Housing, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 23-24, 2011, presentations at Columbia University and New York University, October 6-7, 2011, at the London School of Economics, October 12, 2011, at Santa Clara University on November 9, 2011, and at the Business History Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 30, 2012. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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