Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/28338 
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Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1510
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
Housing crises usually go hand in hand with a long lasting recession and a considerable loss in output. We first re-examine the effects of a housing crises on the business cycle based on historical crises. Then we estimate the international spill-over-effects if several huge industrial countries face a housing crisis simultaneously. While the economic impact of the housing crisis in the United States, from a historical perspective, should have bottomed out at the end of 2008 and the business cycle pattern differed significantly from that in a typical crisis, house prices in Great Britain, Spain and France just started to drop at the end of 2007. If we assume that a typical housing crisis occurs in all of these three countries, international transmission effects then would lead to significant losses of GDP growth in several other countries, notably in Europe.
Subjects: 
Housing Crisis
Business Cycle
International Transmission
Global VAR
JEL: 
C50
E32
F42
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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