Discount Shock, Price-Rent Dynamics, and the Business Cycle

Jianjun Miao, Pengfei Wang and Tao Zha

No 2020-7, FRB Atlanta Working Paper from Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Abstract: The price-rent ratio in commercial real estate is highly volatile, and its variation comoves with the business cycle. To account for these two facts, we develop a dynamic general equilibrium model that explicitly introduces a rental market and incorporates the liquidity constraint on an individual firm's production as a key ingredient. Our estimation identifies the discount shock as the most important factor in driving price-rent dynamics and linking the dynamics in the real estate market to those in the real economy. We illustrate the importance of the liquidity premium and endogenous total factor productivity (TFP) in the nexus of the financial and real sectors.

Keywords: liquidity premium; heterogeneous firms; endogenous TFP; stochastic discount factor; general equilibrium; asset pricing; comovements; production economy; bank loans; business cycles; debt (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E22 E32 E44 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43
Date: 2020-05-21
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Journal Article: DISCOUNT SHOCK, PRICE–RENT DYNAMICS, AND THE BUSINESS CYCLE (2020)
Working Paper: Discount Shock, Price-Rent Dynamics, and the Business Cycle (2014)
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DOI: 10.29338/wp2020-07

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