We analyse the role of financial development as a buffer to diminish the effect of a cross-border bank flows shock on house prices. From panel vector auto-regressions, we compute impulse-response functions for 38 countries ranked and grouped by financial development. In less financially...

This paper first compares house price cycles in advanced and emerging economies using a new quarterly house price dataset covering the period 1990-2012. It is found that that house prices in emerging economies grow faster, are more volatile, less persistent and less synchronized across countries...

Analyses in international political economy (IPE) identify interest rate convergence, magnified in the process of European monetary integration, and financial market liberalization as causal factors behind the rise of house prices. Despite these common credit supply shocks, developed economies...

In this paper we first compare house price cycles in advanced and emerging economies using anew quarterly house price data set covering the period 1990-2012. We find that house prices in emerging economies grow faster, are more volatile, less persistent and less synchronized across countries...

The paper investigates the impact of global liquidity, proxied by funding liquidity, on house prices around the world. Focusing on the repo markets in US, Europe, UK and Japan, we document that changes in liquidity are related to cross-border bank flows and affect house prices. Highlighting the...

Prior to 2016, all-cash purchases of residential real estate were a key loophole in US anti-money-laundering (AML) regulations. Beginning in January 2016, the Department of the Treasury announced orders requiring the owners of LLCs purchasing high-end residential real estate to identify...

US net capital inflows drive the international synchronization of house price growth. An increase (decrease) in US net capital inflows improves (tightens) US dollar funding conditions for non-US global banks, leading them to increase (decrease) foreign lending to third-party borrowing countries....