Arbeitspapier

A theory of housing demand shocks

Aggregate housing demand shocks are an important source of house price fluctuations in the standard macroeconomic models, and through the collateral channel, they drive macroeconomic fluctuations. These reduced-form shocks, however, fail to generate a highly volatile price-to-rent ratio that comoves with the house price observed in the data (the "price-rent puzzle"). We build a tractable heterogeneous-agent model that provides a microeconomic foundation for housing demand shocks. The model predicts that a credit supply shock can generate large comovements between the house price and the price-to-rent ratio. We provide empirical evidence from cross-country and cross-MSA data to support this theoretical prediction.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2019-4

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth
Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Thema
price-rent puzzle
heterogeneity
marginal agent
cutoff point
liquidity premium
price-to-rent ratio
collateral constraint

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Liu, Zheng
Wang, Pengfei
Zha, Tao
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
(wo)
Atlanta, GA
(wann)
2019

DOI
doi:10.29338/wp2019-04
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

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

Entstanden

  • 2019

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