Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/250316 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Cardiff Economics Working Papers No. E2020/6
Publisher: 
Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff
Abstract: 
This paper investigates whether housing collateral is important to the business cycle in China. We develop two models, one without housing collateral as benchmark and one variant allowing for it. Indirect Inference procedure tests these two models' compatibility with the data. We find that the benchmark model passes the test, while the collateral model is strongly rejected. According to the benchmark model, shocks from the housing market have limited impact on the Chinese business cycle. By contrast, the exogenous spending shock from gov- ernment and net exports, the monetary policy shock and the goods-sector cost/productivity shock, all in turn most likely connected to world business cycle shocks (especially the global financial crisis), are found to be the main drivers.
Subjects: 
Housing market
DSGE model
Housing collateral
Indirect Inference
China
JEL: 
E32
E44
E52
R31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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