Housing, consumption and monetary policy: how different are the first-, second- and third-tier cities in China?

Lili Wu and Yang Bian

Applied Economics Letters, 2018, vol. 25, issue 15, 1107-1111

Abstract: This article presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between house prices and the real economy in China’s first-, second- and third-tier cities. A Structural Vector Autoregression model is applied to study the impacts of monetary policy shocks and housing demand shocks on various housing markets across China. We also investigate the role of house prices in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy. The results reveal that in first-tier cities, raising interest rates has a stronger negative effect on house prices. Also, as house prices decrease in first-tier cities, private consumption declines sharply. There is a stronger role of housing markets in the transmission of monetary policy shocks in these cities. Our findings indicate that interest rate adjustment could effectively curb spikes in housing prices in the first-tier cities, but the impact of such adjustments on household consumption must also be considered.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2017.1412069

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