American Economic Journal:
Macroeconomics
ISSN 1945-7707 (Print) | ISSN 1945-7715 (Online)
Housing Market Spillovers: Evidence from an Estimated DSGE Model
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
vol. 2,
no. 2, April 2010
(pp. 125–64)
Abstract
We study sources and consequences of fluctuations in the US housing market. Slow technological progress in the housing sector explains the upward trend in real housing prices of the last 40 years. Over the business cycle, housing demand and housing technology shocks explain one-quarter each of the volatility of housing investment and housing prices. Monetary factors explain less than 20 percent, but have played a bigger role in the housing cycle at the turn of the century. We show that the housing market spillovers are nonnegligible, concentrated on consumption rather than business investment, and have become more important over time. (JEL E23, E32, E44, O33, R31)Citation
Iacoviello, Matteo, and Stefano Neri. 2010. "Housing Market Spillovers: Evidence from an Estimated DSGE Model." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 2 (2): 125–64. DOI: 10.1257/mac.2.2.125Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- E23 Macroeconomics: Production
- E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles
- E44 Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
- O33 Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- R31 Housing Supply and Markets