Zhu, Bing and Betzinger, Michael and Sebastian, Steffen (2017) Housing market stability, mortgage market structure, and monetary policy: Evidence from the euro area. JOURNAL OF HOUSING ECONOMICS, 37. pp. 1-21. ISSN 1051-1377, 1096-0791
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This paper investigates how monetary policy stance and mortgage market structure affect non fundamental house price movements in eleven Euro area countries. Based on a three-stage approach, our empirical evidence suggests that a one-time monetary-easing shock can significantly trigger house price booms in Euro area countries with liberal mortgage markets. Such shocks can explain over 20% of the forecasting error variance of non-fundamental house price runups in Ireland and Spain. We find that, in countries with more regulated mortgage markets, monetary policy stance does not significantly affect non-fundamental house prices. Policymakers may wish to focus on limiting mortgage equity withdrawals and on monitoring loan-to-value ratios and tax policies in order to minimize the side effects of accommodative monetary policies on housing market stability for Euro area countries. We posit that this is especially true for peripheral countries, which are more likely to be subjected to overly loose monetary policy stances. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | CAPITAL INFLOWS; CURRENT ACCOUNT; INTEREST-RATES; PRICES; RISK; TRANSMISSION; LIQUIDITY; COUNTRIES; DYNAMICS; BANKING; House prices; Taylor rate; Non-fundamental house price; Mortgage market structure |
| Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics |
| Divisions: | Business, Economics and Information Systems > Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre > Lehrstuhl für Immobilienfinanzierung (Prof. Dr. Steffen Sebastian) Business, Economics and Information Systems > Institut für Immobilienenwirtschaft / IRE|BS > Lehrstuhl für Immobilienfinanzierung (Prof. Dr. Steffen Sebastian) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2018 13:15 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Feb 2019 11:02 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/1339 |
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