Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/191386 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 7361
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We present empirical evidence on the heterogeneity in monetary policy transmission across countries with different home ownership rates. We use household-level data together with shocks to the policy rate identified from high-frequency data. We find that housing tenure reacts more strongly to unexpected changes in the policy rate in Germany and Switzerland –the OECD countries with the lowest home ownership rates– compared with existing evidence for the U.S. An unexpected decrease in the policy rate by 25 basis points increases the home ownership rate by 0.8 percentage points in Germany and by 0.6 percentage points in Switzerland. The response of non-housing consumption in Switzerland is less heterogeneous across renters and mortgagors, and has a different pattern across age groups than in the U.S. We discuss economic explanations for these findings and implications for monetary policy.
Subjects: 
monetary policy transmission
home ownership
housing tenure
consumption
JEL: 
F21
E52
R21
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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