Global House Price Fluctuations : synchronization and determinants / Hideaki Hirata.

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Hirata, Hideaki [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
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Cambridge, MA : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012.
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1 online resource (25, 18 unnumbered pages) : illustrations.

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Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) ; Number 18362. [More in this series]
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We examine the properties of house price fluctuations across eighteen advanced economies over the past forty years. We ask two specific questions: First, how synchronized are housing cycles across these countries? Second, what are the main shocks driving movements in global house prices? To address these questions, we first estimate the global components in house prices and various macroeconomic and financial variables. We then evaluate the roles played by a variety of global shocks, including shocks to interest rates, monetary policy, productivity, credit, and uncertainty, in explaining house price fluctuations using a wide range of FAVAR models. We find that house prices are synchronized across countries, and the degree of synchronization has increased over time. Global interest rate shocks tend to have a significant negative effect on global house prices whereas global monetary policy shocks per se do not appear to have a sizeable impact. Interestingly, uncertainty shocks seem to be important in explaining fluctuations in global house prices.
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