In light of the steep increase of home prices and rents in Israel in 2009-2010, we identified and quantified the macroeconomic variables that influenced these prices between 1999 and 2010. Estimating an error-correction model and a difference equation model, we found that the monetary interest...

We compare and analyze two commonly used specifications of the interest rate term in the objective function of the monetary authority; a squared interest rate term (Alternative I) and a squared first difference of the interest rate (Alternative II). We find that the inflation response to a...