Three Cycles: Housing, Credit, and Real Activity

By Natalia T. Tamirisa, Alain N. Kabundi, Deniz O Igan, Francisco d Nadal De Simone, Marcelo Pinheiro

October 1, 2009

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Natalia T. Tamirisa, Alain N. Kabundi, Deniz O Igan, Francisco d Nadal De Simone, and Marcelo Pinheiro. Three Cycles: Housing, Credit, and Real Activity, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2009) accessed December 3, 2024

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Summary

We examine the characteristics and comovement of cycles in house prices, credit, real activity and interest rates in advanced economies during the past 25 years, using a dynamic generalized factor model. House price cycles generally lead credit and business cycles over the long term, while in the short to medium term the relationship varies across countries. Interest rates tend to lag other cycles at all time horizons. While global factors are important, the U.S. business cycle, house price cycle and interest rate cycle generally lead the respective cycles in other countries over all time horizons, while the U.S. credit cycle leads mainly over the long term.

Subject: Bank credit, Business cycles, Credit, Housing prices, Mortgages

Keywords: House price, Price, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

32
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Working Paper No. 2009/231
Stock No:

WPIEA2009231
ISBN:

9781451873788
ISSN:

1018-5941

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