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Several central banks have leaned against the wind in the housing market by increasing the policy rate preemptively to prevent a bubble. Yet the empirical literature provides mixed results on the impact of short-term interest rates on house prices: the estimated semi-elasticities range from -12...
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This paper studies the synchronization of financial cycles across 17 advanced economies over the past 150 years. The comovement in credit, house prices, and equity prices has reached historical highs in the past three decades. The sharp increase in the comovement of global equity markets is...
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This paper assesses the role of the housing market in the transmission of conventional and unconventional monetary … fashion across regions. Although the housing channel plays a minor role in the transmission of monetary policy to the economy … the diverse transmission of monetary policy to economic activity across regions, finding a larger impact in areas with …
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This paper assesses the role of the housing market in the transmission of conventional and unconventional monetary … fashion across regions. Although the housing channel plays a minor role in the transmission of monetary policy to the economy …
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Existing literature documents that house prices respond to monetary policy surprises with a significant delay, taking years to reach their peak response. We present new evidence of a much faster response. We exploit information contained in listings for residential properties for sale in the...
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