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Expectations and the housing boom and bust. An open economy view

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2020-09
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3307
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I show that both before and after the Great Recession, housing dynamics strongly correlate with current account dynamics, both across and within countries. In a benchmark DSGE model of housing markets, housing price-to-rent ratios are counterfactual if the transmission channel from housing to the current account is only through the consumption effects from relaxed borrowing constraints. Utilizing a model with enough reallocation of labor between construction and tradable goods resolves the problem. In this model, using survey data on housing price expectations generates dynamics of housing variables and the current account consistent with the data. However, interest rate dynamics are counterfactual.
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Gete, P. (2020). Expectations and the housing boom and bust. An open economy view. Journal of Housing Economics, 49, 101690. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhe.2020.101690
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