Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Professor Alan Ahearne:

The Netherlands had a very bad boom and bust in the 1970s. The Japanese had an atrocious boom and bust in which property prices fell by 90% from peak to trough, at least in Tokyo. Their data are a little hard to interpret, but it occurred over a very long period.