Much of the literature on the effect of housing wealth on consumption has been embedded in a simple life-cycle model in … which housing price changes work as a "wealth effect". In such models, windfall gains in housing always lead to positive … changes in consumption. However, this might constitute a fallacy of composition. Such models ignore that changes in housing …

Should monetary policy lean against housing market booms? We approach this question using a small-scale, regime …-switching New Keynesian model, where housing market crashes arrive with a logit probability that depends on the level of household …

household indebtedness and housing price fluctuations compared with a monetary policy rule augmented with house price inflation … houses and we introduce news shocks on housing demand. We estimate the model with Canadian data using Bayesian methods. We … find that the introduction of news shocks can generate a housing market boom-bust cycle, the bust following unrealized …