Housing booms and media coverage

Clive Walker

Applied Economics, 2014, vol. 46, issue 32, 3954-3967

Abstract: This article analyses news media coverage of the housing market. Building on theories of media influence where word of mouth is the final mechanism of opinion change but media initiate discourse, I examine the relationship between news media and the recent UK house price boom. Over 30 000 articles on the UK housing market from the period 1993 to 2008 are analysed, and it is found that media Granger-caused real house price changes, suggesting the media may have influenced opinions on the housing market. However, media sentiment on the housing market did not change with the secular increase in house prices in the 2000s, suggesting that the media did not contribute to the UK's housing boom and may have helped constrain it.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2014.948675

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