Saturday, October 01, 2005

"Little evidence of a housing bubble"

A paper in this quarter's Journal of Economic Perspectives by Himmelberg (the Fed of NY), Mayer (Columbia) & Sinai (Wharton) says that their "analysis reveals little evidence of a housing bubble." We'll see if they know what they are talking about. Myself, I am skeptical myself since part of their analysis involves constructing new measures for evaluating the cost of home ownership because existing measures (which seem to indicate prices are exuberant) are not adequate. Whatever.