What are the macroeconomic consequences of changing aggregate lending standards in residential mortgage markets, as measured by loan-to-value (LTV) ratios? In a structural VAR, GDP and business investment increase following an expansionary LTV shock. Residential investment, by contrast, falls, a...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Inside Property Market Cycle -- Chapter 2: Property Market Cycle -- Chapter 3: On the Essence of property cycles -- Chapter 4: Addressing Cyclicality Through International Financial Standards -- Chapter 5: Dealing with Cyclical Assets -- Chapter 6: The Logic of...

Immobilien haben sich in Deutschland in den vergangenen Jahren merklich verteuert. In diesem Beitrag wird untersucht, inwieweit dieser Preisanstieg auf eine nicht nachhaltige Entwicklung zurückgeführt werden muss.

This study looks at real estate price booms and busts in industrialised countries. It identifies major and persistent deviations from long term trends for 18 countries and estimates the probabilities of their occurrence using a Random Effects Panel Probit model over the period 1980-2007. It...

Housing crises usually go hand in hand with a long lasting recession and a considerable loss in output. We first re-examine the effects of a housing crises on the business cycle based on historical crises. Then we estimate the international spill-over-effects if several huge industrial countries...

This paper analyzes the costs of housing crises in terms of GDP growth and the economic conditions under which crises are particularly costly. Housing crises are often followed by recessions that are longer than other recessions. According to empirical estimates, a housing crisis reduces the GDP...