This paper investigates the effectiveness of monetary policy on house prices in South Africa before and after financial liberalization, with financial liberalization being identified with the recommendations of the De Kock Commission in 1985. Using both impulse response and variance...

We examine the time-series relationship between house prices in eight Southern California metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs). First, we perform cointegration tests of the house price indexes for the MSAs, finding seven cointegrating vectors. Thus, the evidence suggests that one common trend...

This paper estimates Bayesian Vector Autoregressive (BVAR) models, both spatial and non-spatial (univariate and multivariate), for the twenty largest states of the US economy, using quarterly data over the period 1976:Q1 to 1994:Q4; and then forecasts one-to-four quarters-ahead real house price...