Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153166 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 732
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We provide systematic evidence for the association of liquidity shocks and aggregate asset prices during mechanically identified asset price boom/bust episodes for 18 OECD countries since the 1970s, while taking care of the endogeneity of money and credit. Our derivation of liquidity shocks allows for frequent shifts in velocity as they are derived as structural shocks from VARs in growth rates. Residential property price developments and money growth shocks accumulated over the boom periods are able to well explain the depth of post-boom recessions. We further suggest that liquidity shocks are a driving factor for real estate prices during boom episodes. During normal times however, the relative predictive power of liquidity shocks seems to shift from asset price inflation to consumer price inflation. The results only hold for broad money growth based liquidity shocks and not for private credit growth shocks.
Subjects: 
asset price booms
Liquidity shocks
monetary policy
money and credit aggregates
real estate prices
role of money
JEL: 
C33
E41
E51
E58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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