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The emerging mortgage markets in China / Yongheng Deng and Peng Fei -- Mortgage market in India / Piyush Tiwari and Pradeep Debata -- Transforming housing finance in Japan in the 21st century / Miki Seko -- Mortgage market in Singapore / Seow Eng Ong -- The Israeli mortgage market : mortgage insurance as a mechanism for screening default risk / Danny Ben-Shahar, Gilat Benchetrit, Eyal Sulganik -- Housing finance and mortgage markets in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia / A.R. Ghanbari Parsa and Mohammad Ali Mulazadeh -- The mortgage lending market in Poland / Ewa Kucharska-Stasiak and Magdalena Zaleczna -- Secondary mortgage markets in South Africa / Julia Freybote and Viola Karoly -- The mortgage market in Ghana / Callistus Mahama -- Housing finance in emerging economics : applying a benchmark from developed countries / Ashok Bardhan and Robert H. Edelstein -- Mortgage finance in emerging markets : constraints and feasible development paths / Bertrand M. Renaud.

The book provides a theoretical and empirical evaluation of different housing finance systems, presenting a collection of studies that describe various aspects of selected mortgage markets around the world. The uniqueness of the chosen markets lies in the fact that they represent not only different regions around the globe (Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Eastern Europe), but also understudied markets in different stages of economic and financial development. This book examines questions relating to housing finance efficiency and contract heterogeneity. In addition, it analyses the securiti.

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