Arbeitspapier

Land-price dynamics and macroeconomic fluctuations

We argue that positive comovements between land prices and business investment are a driving force behind the broad impact of land-price dynamics on the macroeconomy. We develop an economic mechanism that captures the comovements by incorporating two key features into a DSGE model: we introduce land as a collateral asset in firms' credit constraints, and we identify a shock that drives most of the observed fluctuations in land prices. Our estimates imply that these two features combine to generate an empirically important mechanism that amplifies and propagates macroeconomic fluctuations through the joint dynamics of land prices and business investment.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2011-11

Classification
Wirtschaft
Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth
Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment: Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
Subject
land prices
collateral assets
investment
dynamic multiplier
propagation mechanism
co-movements
Grundbesitz
Bodenpreis
Volatilität
Investition
Gesamtwirtschaftliche Produktion
Dynamisches Gleichgewicht

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Liu, Zheng
Wang, Pengfei
Zha, Tao
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
(where)
Atlanta, GA
(when)
2011

Handle
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Liu, Zheng
  • Wang, Pengfei
  • Zha, Tao
  • Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Time of origin

  • 2011

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