The U.S. housing price bubble: Bernanke versus Taylor

Abrar M. Fitwi, Scott Hein and Jeffrey M. Mercer

Journal of Economics and Business, 2015, vol. 80, issue C, 62-80

Abstract: This paper examines the effects of two major macro-economic forces argued by opposing renowned U.S. economists to have contributed most significantly to the U.S. housing price bubble that preceded the recent global financial crisis. The first force examined, as argued by John Taylor, is the Federal Reserve's loose monetary policy stance from 2002 to 2005. The second force examined, as argued by Ben Bernanke, is the substantial global inflow of capital to the U.S. over the same time period. We develop and estimate a reduced form model for U.S. housing prices, and find evidence consistent with both factors’ contributing significantly to the recent macro-housing price behavior in the U.S.

Keywords: Monetary policy; Taylor rule deviations; Bernanke; International capital inflows; U.S. housing prices; Financial crisis; Macro-economic forces (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E00 E39 E58 F00 F21 F39 G12 G15 R00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconbus.2015.05.001

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