When Does Monetary Policy Sway House Prices? A Meta-Analysis

Josef Bajzik, Dominika Ehrenbergerova () and Tomas Havranek
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Dominika Ehrenbergerova: Charles University & Czech National Bank, Prague, Czech Republic
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Dominika Kolcunová

No 2021/17, Working Papers IES from Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies

Abstract: Several central banks have leaned against the wind in the housing market by increasing the policy rate preemptively to prevent a bubble. Yet the empirical literature provides mixed results on the impact of short-term interest rates on house prices: the estimated semi-elasticities range from -12 to positive values. To assign a pattern to these differences, we collect 1,447 estimates from 31 individual studies that cover 45 countries and 69 years. We then relate the estimates to 39 characteristics of the financial system, business cycle, and estimation approach. Our main results are threefold. First, the mean reported estimate is exaggerated by publication bias, because insignificant results are underreported. Second, omission of important variables (liquidity and long-term rates) likewise exaggerates the effects of short-term rates on house prices. Third, the effects are stronger in countries with more developed mortgage markets and generally later in the cycle when the yield curve is flat and house prices enter an upward spiral.

Keywords: Interest rates; house prices; monetary policy transmission; meta-analysis; publication bias; Bayesian model averaging (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C83 E52 R21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2021-05, Revised 2021-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cwa, nep-mac, nep-mon and nep-ure
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