We explore the interaction of monetary and macroprudential policy in a simple agent-based model of the housing market. Our model shows that the impact of monetary policy on housing market dynamics is smaller than the impact of macroprudential regulation. While both maximum loan-to-value ratios...

This paper studies the optimal interest rate rule in a DSGE model with housing market spillovers (Iacoviello and Neri (2010)). We find that the optimal rule responds to house price inflation even when the stabilization of house price is not among the objectives of the policymaker, and that the...