We investigate the behavior of the equilibrium price–rent ratio for housing in a standard asset pricing model and compare the model predictions to survey evidence on the return expectations of real-world housing investors. We allow for time-varying risk aversion (via external habit formation)...

In this paper I estimate a New Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model à la (Smets and Wouters, 2003), (Smets and Wouters, 2005) and (Smets and Wouters, 2007) featured with financial frictions à la Bernanke, Gertler, and Gilchrist (1999) for the Euro Area. The main aim is to...