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Betting the house
Jordà, Òscar; Schularick, Moritz; Taylor, Alan M. - 2014
Is there a link between loose monetary conditions, credit growth, house price booms, and financial instability? This paper analyzes the role of interest rates and credit in driving house price booms and busts with data spanning 140 years of modern economic history in the advanced economies. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468583
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Housing-consumption channel of mortgage demand
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Szumilo, Nikodem; Tripathy, Jagdish - 2024
We quantify the housing-consumption channel in mortgage demand according to which households borrow more following … a structural approach to mortgage demand and supply, exploiting exogenous variation in house-price growth and a unique … dataset with matched transaction-price and mortgage information. We estimate an elasticity of mortgage borrowing to house …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014637339
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The great mortgaging : housing finance, crises, and business cycles
Jordà, Òscar; Schularick, Moritz; Taylor, Alan M. - 2014
course of the 20th century, driven by a sharp rise of mortgage lending to households. Household debt to asset ratios have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412763
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Bargaining over residential real estate : evidence from England
Merlo, Antonio; Ortalo-Magné, François - 2002
This paper presents and investigates a new data set of individual residential property transactions in England. The main novelty of the data is the record of all listing price changes and all offers made on a property, as well as all the visits by potential buyers for a subset of the properties....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541128
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Re-examining the decline in the US saving rate : the impact of mortgage equity withdrawal
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Costantini, Mauro; Paradiso, … - 2012
In this paper we examine the role of mortgage equity withdrawal in explaining the decline of the US saving rate, since … when house prices rise and mortgage rates are low, homeowners have an incentive to withdraw housing equity and this may … withdrawal and interest rates and find that indeed mortgage equity withdrawal is a key determinant of the observed saving pattern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571747
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US disposable personal income and housing price index : a fractional integration analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2010
July 2010. The empirical findings indicate that the stochastic properties of the two series are such that cointegration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697849
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US house prices by census division : persistence, trends and structural breaks
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2022
This paper uses fractional integration methods to examine persistence, trends and structural breaks in US house prices, more specifically the monthly Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) House Price Index for Census Divisions, and the US as a whole over the period from January 1991 to August...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472362
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Determinants of house prices in Central and Eastern Europe
Égert, Balázs (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper studies the determinants of house prices in eight transition economies of central and eastern Europe (CEE) and 19 OECD countries. The main question addressed is whether the conventional fundamental determinants of house prices, such as GDP per capita, real interest rates, housing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003624430
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Housing market expectations
Kuchler, Theresa; Piazzesi, Monika; Stroebel, Johannes - 2022
purchasing and mortgage financing decisions. Finally, we highlight research on how expectations affect aggregate outcomes in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170986
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Home ownership and monetary policy transmission
Koeniger, Winfried; Ramelet, Marc-Antoine - 2018
We present empirical evidence on the heterogeneity in monetary policy transmission across countries with different home ownership rates. We use household-level data together with shocks to the policy rate identified from high-frequency data. We find that housing tenure reacts more strongly to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011933761