The ins and outs of selling houses: understanding housing-market volatility

L. Rachel Ngai and Kevin Sheedy

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Abstract: This article documents the role of inflows (new listings) and outflows (sales) in explaining the volatility and comovement of housing-market variables. An “ins versus outs” decomposition shows that both flows are quantitatively important for housing-market volatility. The correlations between sales, prices, new listings, and time-to-sell are stable over time, whereas the signs of their correlations with houses for sale are found to be time-varying. A calibrated search-and-matching model with endogenous inflows and outflows and shocks to housing demand matches many of the stable correlations and predicts that the correlations with houses for sale depend on the source and persistence of shocks.

Keywords: housing-market cyclicality; inflows and outflows; search frictions; match quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E22 E32 R21 R31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2024-08
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Published in International Economic Review, August, 2024, 65(3), pp. 1415-1440. ISSN: 0020-6598

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Related works:
Journal Article: THE INS AND OUTS OF SELLING HOUSES: UNDERSTANDING HOUSING‐MARKET VOLATILITY (2024)
Working Paper: The Ins and Outs of Selling Houses: Understanding Housing-Market Volatility (2023)
Working Paper: The Ins and Outs of Selling Houses: Understanding Housing-Market Volatility (2022)
Working Paper: The Ins and Outs of Selling Houses: Understanding Housing Market Volatility (2020)
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