Re: Bubblemania

2003-01-23 Thread Koushik Sekhar
Should markets be priced assuming that nothing will go wrong ("random shocks") or should markets be priced assuming that something will go wrong ? If the answer is the latter, then shouldn't some margin of error provided for the consequences of these "random shocks" ? Are these events truly rando

are real estate markets competitive?

2003-01-23 Thread john hull
Howdy, I was thinking about a self-assessment scheme I read about once for property tax valuations. That got me wondering this: In most localities is seems that real estate markets are pretty heterogeneous in terms of both land characteristics and extant buildings, and that the markets might ofte