Housing market connectedness and transmission of monetary policy

Woo Suk Lee and Eunseong Ma

Economic Inquiry, 2025, vol. 63, issue 3, 961-984

Abstract: This paper investigates whether interconnectivity among local housing markets influences the effectiveness of the (United States) U.S. monetary transmission mechanism. We construct measures of housing market connectedness and employ a state‐dependent local projection method to estimate nonlinear impulse responses of macroeconomic variables to monetary policy (MP) shocks. The findings show that MP has a greater impact when regional housing markets are more synchronized. Higher interconnectivity amplifies spillover effects across local markets, enhancing MP effectiveness. Additionally, we find that MP is particularly effective when highly connected states experience economic expansion.

Date: 2025
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