Cheap Money and the Housing Boom in Interwar Britain: An Econometric Appraisal

Stephen Broadberry

The Manchester School of Economic & Social Studies, 1987, vol. 55, issue 4, 378-91

Abstract: The author presents an econometric model of housing investment and establishes the quantitative importanc e of cheap money in the British housing boom of the 1930s. Cheap mone y is shown to account for about half of the initial rise in housing i nvestment. In addition, he examines the transmission mechanism by mod eling building society behavior. He shows that it was a fall in the l iquidity ratio, rather than a rise in net deposits, which was the pri mary source of the initial increase in building society advances. Copyright 1987 by Blackwell Publishers Ltd and The Victoria University of Manchester

Date: 1987
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