Andrew Gyourko

Free exchange Economics R.A. | WASHINGTON The latest interesting economics research THIS week's interesting economics research: Cross-country causes and consequences of the crisis (Andrew Rose and Mark Spiegel) Can interest rates and easy mortgage credit explain the housing boom? (Ed Glaeser, Josh Gottlieb, and Joseph Gyourko) Immigrants and the labor market in California, 1960-2005 (Giovanni Peri) China's high saving rate: myth and reality (Guonan Ma and Wang Yi) Placing the 2006-08 commodity price boom into perspective (John Baffes and Tassos Haniotis) The economics of Gypsies (Peter Leeson)