Money Illusion and Housing Frenzies

Markus Brunnermeier and Christian Julliard

No 12810, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: A reduction in inflation can fuel run-ups in housing prices if people suffer from money illusion. For example, investors who decide whether to rent or buy a house by simply comparing monthly rent and mortgage payments do not take into account that inflation lowers future real mortgage costs. We decompose the price-rent ratio in a rational component -- meant to capture the proxy effect and risk premia -- and an implied mispricing. We find that inflation and nominal interest rates explain a large share of the time-series variation of the mispricing, and that the tilt effect is unlikely to rationalize this finding.

JEL-codes: G12 R2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-12
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Published as Markus K. Brunnermeier & Christian Julliard, 2008. "Money Illusion and Housing Frenzies," Review of Financial Studies, Oxford University Press for Society for Financial Studies, vol. 21(1), pages 135-180, January.

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