The correlation across US states in house price growth increased steadily between 1976 and 2000. This paper shows that … state pairs and document that house price growth correlation is strongly related to this measure of financial integration …. Our IV estimates suggest that banking integration can explain up to one fourth of the rise in house price correlation over …

production in different countries is deemed as one of the factors of the price spike in 2007/08, the contribution of correlation … of yield shocks to price volatility is measured. This paper shows that correlation effects account for a significant …