The nonlinear impacts of macroeconomic shocks on the US regional housing markets

Golnaz Baradaran Motie and Zheng Zeng

Applied Economics, 2025, vol. 57, issue 45, 7332-7349

Abstract: This paper examines the asymmetrical impacts of aggregate macroeconomic shocks on the US regional housing markets by estimating nonlinear Vector Autoregressive models. We show how aggregate output, monetary, inflation, and credit shocks result in heterogenous impulse responses of the housing market volatilities across growing and declining housing market regimes in nine census divisions and 19 metropolitan cities. We find that output and inflation shocks cause qualitatively asymmetrical responses across regimes in majority of regions. A positive output shock and a negative inflation shock reduce (increase) housing price uncertainties when housing markets are in a declining (booming) regime in most regions. The responses of regional housing price volatilities to monetary and credit shocks are quantitatively asymmetrical across regimes in most regions. We also find that aggregate shocks have larger contributions on changing the probabilities of regime switching when a regional housing market is initially expanding than declining. Among aggregate shocks, inflation shock has the most prominent contributions across most regions. It also presents the strongest asymmetrical effects across positive and negative shocks. Our results can help regional decision makers utilize fiscal policies, regulatory measures, and regional planning to mitigate the destabilizing effects of macroeconomic shocks on regional housing markets.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2024.2388311

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