In the U.S. economy during the past 25 years, house prices exhibit fluctuations considerably larger than house rents, and these large fluctuations tend to move together with business cycles. We build a simple theoretical model to characterize these observations by showing the tight connection...

The housing sector is one of the key sectors in an economy and its fluctuations could be accompanied with stagnation or expansion in other parts of an economy. Additionally, this sector has an intra-economic role in near to 120 sub-industries which therefore indicates its importance in an...