Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/113801 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 5471
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper is mainly concerned with the analysis of regional house price cycles. Based on a newly available data set consisting of the 40 largest U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs), we introduce a wavelet transform based metric to study the housing cycle synchronization across MSAs. We derive several conclusions: (i) We show that regional housing cycle dissimilarities are significantly and strongly connected to geography. (ii) We show that U.S. regional housing cycles are considerably shorter compared to business cycles. (iii) By employing statistical methods, we also show that regional housing prices significantly converge after the bursting of the bubble only at higher business cycle frequencies, whereas for lower business cycle frequencies this is not the case. This is a notable result, because it directly implies that housing cycles behavior is different even at the business cycle.
Subjects: 
continuous wavelet transform
housing cycles
regional house price synchronization
wavelet distance matrix
JEL: 
C32
C33
E32
R11
R31
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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