House Price Booms, Current Account Deficits, and Low Interest Rates

Andrea Ferrero

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2015, vol. 47, issue S1, 261-293

Abstract: Domestic factors, such as credit and preference shocks, can explain the negative correlation between house prices and the current account in the U.S. and several other countries before the recent crisis. These shocks, however, cannot account for the fall of world real interest rates observed in the data. Expansionary monetary policy shocks in the U.S., coupled with exchange rate pegs to the dollar in emerging economies, are crucial to understanding the evolution of the real interest rate. Yet, monetary policy factors play virtually no role for house prices and the current account.

Date: 2015
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