Author: Kai Ren TzengPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Effect of Monetary Policy on Housing Market-A Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Framework
Author: Kai Ren TzengMonetary Policy and Housing Prices in an Estimated DSGE for the US and the Euro Area
Author: Matthieu Darracq PariesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 69
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We estimate a two-country Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model for the US and the euro area including relevant housing market features and examine the monetary policy implications of housing-related disturbances. In particular, we derive the optimal monetary policy cooperation consistent with the structural specification of the model. Our estimation results reinforce the existing evidence on the role of housing and mortgage markets for the US and provide new evidence on the importance of the collateral channel in the euro area. Moreover, we document the various implications of credit frictions for the propagation of macroeconomic disturbances and the conduct of monetary policy. We find that allowing for some degree of monetary policy response to fluctuations in the price of residential goods improves the empirical fit of the model and is consistent with the main features of optimal monetary policy response to housing-related shocks.
An Estimated DSGE Model to Analyze Housing Market Policies in Hong Kong SAR
Author: Mr.Pau RabanalPublisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1484347579
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
During the last decade, Hong Kong SAR has experienced a large increase in house prices and credit, prompting the authorities to respond with several rounds of tightening macroprudential rules and increasing stamp duty taxes. This paper provides a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model for Hong Kong SAR and analyzes the effectiveness of these measures, and finds that they have helped reduce house price appreciation and household leverage. A baseline small open economy real business cycle model is extended by including a housing sector, financial frictions, foreign demand for the domestic housing stock, and is estimated using Bayesian methods and data for Hong Kong SAR between 1996 and 2017. The paper finds that, without these policies, house prices would have been 10.5 percent higher, and the household credit-GDP ratio 14 percent higher.
Monetary and Macroprudential Policy Rules in a Model with House Price Booms
Author: Mr.Pau RabanalPublisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1451873980
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
We argue that a stronger emphasis on macrofinancial risk could provide stabilization benefits. Simulations results suggest that strong monetary reactions to accelerator mechanisms that push up credit growth and asset prices could help macroeconomic stability. In addition, using a macroprudential instrument designed specifically to dampen credit market cycles would also be useful. But invariant and rigid policy responses raise the risk of policy errors that could lower, not raise, macroeconomic stability. Hence, discretion would be required.
The Effects of Housing Prices and Monetary Policy in a Currency Union
Author: Oriol Aspachs-BraconsPublisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1455211842
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
The recent boom-and-bust cycle in housing prices has refreshed the debate on the drivers of housing cycles as well as the appropriate policy response. We analyze the case of Spain, where housing prices have soared since it joined the EMU. We present evidence based on a VAR model, and we calibrate a New Keynesian model of a currency area with durable goods to explain it. We find that labor market rigidities provide stronger amplification effects to all type of shocks than financial frictions do. Finally, we show that when the central bank reacts to house prices, the non-durable sector suffers an important contraction. As a result, the boom-and-bust cycle would not have been avoided if Spain had remained outside the EMU during the 1996-2007 period.
House Prices and Macroprudential Policy in an Estimated DSGE Model of New Zealand
Author: Michael FunkePublisher:
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Category : Economic policy
Languages : en
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Monetary Policy, Residential Investment, and Search Frictions
Author: Kurt G. LunsfordDynamic Macroeconomic Models in Emerging Market Economies
Author: Daniel Lukui JiaPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 981154588X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This book summarizes the evolution of modern macroeconomics (New Consensus Macroeconomics, NCM) and proposes a new approach to theoretical and empirical analysis, which is based on a recently developed dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model. Dynamic macroeconomic analysis in emerging market economies is challenging, and of growing importance in the global economy, where emerging markets are becoming more and more influential. Clearly, a deeper understanding of the inner workings of emerging economies, particularly with respect to their socioeconomic structure and the urbanization process, is needed. The book’s extends the NCM/DSGE model to better account for significant economic and social features in emerging market economies. In particular, household heterogeneities and social stratification are explicitly incorporated into the framework proposed here, substantially enhancing the comprehensiveness of the model economy, and allowing it to better account for underlying social structure in emerging economies. Furthermore, financial and housing markets have not been considered sufficiently in either the advanced or emerging economy literature, an oversight this book remedies. As such, it makes an original and valuable contribution to the field, and a direction for future research.
The Housing Boom and Bust
Author: Thomas SowellPublisher: Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN: 0465018807
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Explains how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust. The "creative" financing of home mortgages and "creative" marketing of financial securities based on these mortgages to countries around the world, are part of the story of how a financial house of cards was built up--and then collapsed.
Essays in Macroeconomics
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Languages : en
Pages : 352
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This dissertation has three self-contained chapters in macroeconomics. In the first chapter, I develop a two-sector dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model where the housing sector is subject to search and matching frictions. These frictions amplify the response of residential construction to all economic shocks. Further, the interest rate spread between mortgages and risk free bonds transmits monetary policy to the housing market. An expansionary monetary policy shock reduces this spread, increasing the demand for homeownership and spurring new residential construction. I test the qualitative predictions of the DSGE model by estimating a factor-augmented vector autoregression and identifying the structural monetary policy shocks with an external instrument. Consistent with the DSGE model, an expansionary monetary policy shock reduces the interest rate spread between mortgages and Treasury bonds. In the second chapter, I study time series models for forecasting residential investment. I estimate standard univariate and multivariate models and propose an error correction model (ECM) based on the stock-flow relationship of housing starts, completions and units under construction. The root mean squared prediction errors (RMSPEs) of the models are compared along with the RMSPEs of the Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF) and the Federal Reserve's Greenbook. For the 1981:Q3 to 2013:Q2 sample, the ECM improves upon the competing time series models and makes modest improvements to the SPF. For the 1981:Q3 to 2007:Q4 sample, the ECM performs comparably to the Greenbook. In the third chapter, I study the implication of two stylized facts of the U.S. economy. First, nominal prices in the services sector change less frequently than those in the goods sector. Second, the size of the services sector relative to the goods sector has increased over the last 50 years. In a two-sector new Keynesian model, these facts imply that interest rate shocks should have a larger impact on output in more recent time periods. In contrast to this implication, impulse response functions of U.S. GDP to Federal Funds rate shocks estimated using both vector autoregressions and factor-augmented vector autoregressions are larger in the 1959 to 1979 time period than in the 1983 to 2007 time period.