Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/122014 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 649 Discussion Paper No. 2015-041
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649 - Economic Risk, Berlin
Abstract: 
We show that house prices from Aberdeen in the UK improve in- and out-of-sample oil price forecasts. The improvements are of a similar magnitude to those attained using macroeconomic indicators. We explain these forecast improvements with the dominant role of the oil industry in Aberdeen. House prices aggregate the dispersed knowledge of the future oil price that exists in the city. We obtain similar empirical evidence for Houston, another city dominated by the oil industry. Consistent with our explanation, we find that house prices from economically more diversified areas in the UK and the US do not improve oil price forecasts.
Subjects: 
oil price forecasting
house prices
knowledge spillover
JEL: 
C53
E32
Q47
R31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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