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2013 Nobel Prize winner: China's real estate bubble is serious

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Robert Shiller, the winner of 2013 Nobel Prize in economics, believes that the real estatebubble is a serious problem in China. 

The U.S. economist Robert Shiller, who has become one of the three winners of the 2013Nobel Prize for economics, has visited China 
several times and has observed on severaloccasions that a housing bubble is inflating. 

In 2009, Robert Shiller expressed his concern that behind the fast-developing Chineseeconomy there are several phenomena to which we 
need to be alert, such as high houseprices in the southern city of Shenzhen in Guangdong province. He made the observationwhile visiting 
a Chinese company in Shenzhen. 

He has calculated that in Shenzhen, Shanghai and other major cities of China people arebuying houses at a price which is 8 to 10 times 
their annual income, which he considers tobe unaffordable. 

In 2009 he came to Shanghai to attend an executive MBA Forum held by the ShanghaiAdvanced Institute of Finance at Jiao Tong University, 
where he also aired his worriesabout Shanghai’s real estate prices. 

According to Shiller, house prices were 100 times the income of ordinary people inShanghai, meaning that these people would need to work 
for 100 years to buy anapartment. In this case, the reason why they still wanted to buy an apartment was theirexpectation that house prices 
would continue to rise. This gambling mentality was leadingthem into completely irrational buying decisions. 

At the 2011 Davos Forum Shiller talked again about China’s housing bubble. With U.S. realestate prices falling, many people had lost their 
houses or been forced to leave theirhometown to seek work. At the same time the U.S. debt ratio had reached the highest levelever. Shiller 
worried that the same thing would happen in China. Currently, Chinesehouseholds' debt ratios are also very high. Some experts now doubt 
whether the U.S.government can maintain its stimulus policy. If China’s real estate bubble bursts likeAmerica's has done it will badly affect 
the Chinese economy.

Edited and Translated by Yao Chun, People's Daily Online
Source: http://english.people.com.cn/business/8427784.html

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