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Housing prices have fallen the most in these countries
The IMF's Chart of the Week shows widespread declines in inflation-adjusted housing prices for two-thirds of OECD countries, with Denmark leading the pack.
Hites Ahir is a Senior Research Officer at the IMF. His research interests include: global housing markets, forecast assessment, and measuring global uncertainty. He previously worked at the Inter-American Development Bank where he assisted with analysis of the Southern Cone economies. He did his graduate work in economics at Johns Hopkins University.
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