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This paper investigates spatial linkages in returns, idiosyncratic risks, and volatilities across nineteen U.S. regional housing markets. Using Case & Shiller housing price indices from 1995 through 2009, we find that interconnections across markets can be “wider” and “stronger” than...

This paper models the correlated shocks across regional housing markets and the spillover effects in time-varying housing price volatilities. We explore two kinds of diffusion channels: geographic closeness and economic similarity. Our empirical investigation is based on the Case-Shiller housing...