The effects of macroprudential policy on Hong Kong’s housing market: a multivariate ordered probit-augmented vector autoregressive approach

William W. Chow and Michael K. Fung ()
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William W. Chow: Hong Kong SAR Government
Michael K. Fung: Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Empirical Economics, 2021, vol. 60, issue 2, No 4, 633-660

Abstract: Abstract This study evaluates the effects of macroprudential policy on Hong Kong’s housing market using a multivariate ordered probit-augmented vector autoregressive model (MOP-VAR). The proposed MOP-VAR extends the conventional dummy policy variable approach by allowing explicit measurement of time-varying policy intensities that underlie policy rules, and thus facilitates analyses of bilateral relationship between house prices and multiple policy instruments when endogeneity exits among the instruments’ intensities and prices. An impulse response analysis suggests that the dampening effect of macroprudential tightening is stronger and more instantaneous on transactions than on prices. The eventual outcome as indicated by conditional forecasts is dominated by a strong and prolonged own price response to house price shocks and other external developments that undermine the policy’s effectiveness. Moreover, over the long haul, a combination of a stamp duty and stress test tends to be more effective than restricting the loan-to-value ratio in triggering a trend reversal in house prices, despite the government’s preference for the latter. The out-of-sample probabilistic forecasts of policy changes are mostly consistent with the observable outcomes.

Keywords: Housing market; Macroprudential policy; Hong Kong; Bayesian; Vector autoregression; Multivariate ordered probit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C11 C31 E58 R38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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