Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/43324 
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Year of Publication: 
2007
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UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP07/01
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University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
Looking at house price cycles across the OECD since 1970, we find a strong relationship between the size of the initial rise in price and its subsequent fall. Were this relationship to hold for Ireland, it would predict falls of real house prices of 40 to 60 per cent over a period of 8 to 9 years. House price falls tend not to have serious macroeconomic consequences, but the unusually large size of the Irish house building industry suggest that any significant house price fall that does occur could impose a difficult adjustment on the economy.
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Working Paper

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