Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153322 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 888
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper assesses the linkages between money, credit, house prices and economic activity in industrialised countries over the last three decades. The analysis is based on a fixed-effects panel VAR estimated using quarterly data for 17 industrialized countries spanning the period 1970-2006. The main results of the analysis are the following: (i) There is evidence of a significant multidirectional link between house prices, monetary variables and the macroeconomy. (ii) The link between house prices and monetary variables is found to be stronger over a more recent sub-sample from 1985 till 2006. (iii) The effects of shocks to money and credit are found to be stronger when house prices are booming. The last two results are, however, in general not statistically significant due to the large confidence bands of the impulse responses.
Subjects: 
collateral
financial liberalisation
House prices
money and credit
wealth effects
JEL: 
E21
E22
E31
E32
E44
E47
E50
R21
R31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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