House price booms and the current account


Adam, Klaus ; Kuang, Pei ; Marcet, Albert


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URL: https://ub-madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/30174
URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-301742
Document Type: Working paper
Year of publication: 2011
Place of publication: Mannheim
Publication language: English
Institution: School of Law and Economics > Geldpolitik und Makroökonomik (Adam 2008-)
Subject: 330 Economics
Classification: JEL: JEL Class. No: F41, F32, E43,
Abstract: A simple open economy asset pricing model can account for the house price and current account dynamics in the G7 over the years 2001-2008. The model features rational households, but assumes that households entertain subjective beliefs about price behavior and update these using Bayes’ rule. The resulting beliefs dynamics considerably propagate economic shocks and crucially contribute to replicating the empirical evidence. Belief dynamics can temporarily delink house prices from fundamentals, so that low interest rates can fuel a house price boom. House price booms, however, are not necessarily synchronized across countries and the model is consistent with the heterogeneous response of house prices across the G7 following the reduction in real interest rates at the beginning of the millennium. The response to interest rates depends sensitively on agents’ beliefs at the time of the interest rate reduction, which in turn are a function of the country specific history prior to the year 2000. According to the model, the US house price boom could have been largely avoided, if real interest rates had decreased by less after the year 2000.




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