Iacoviello, Matteo; Neri, Stefano - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2007
Using U.S. data and Bayesian methods, we quantify the contribution of the housing market to business fluctuations. The …, what shocks drive the housing market? We find that the upward trend in real housing prices of the last 40 years can be … explained by slow technological progress in the housing sector. Over the business cycle instead, housing demand and housing …