Bank Lending and Property Prices: Some International Evidence

Boris Hofmann

No 222003, Working Papers from Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research

Abstract: This paper analyses the patterns of dynamic interaction between bank lending and property prices based on a sample of 20 countries using both time series and panel data techniques. Long-run causality appears to go from property prices to bank lending. This finding suggests that property price cycles, reflecting changing beliefs about future economic prospects, drive credit cycles, rather than excessive bank lending being the cause of property price bubbles. There is also evidence of short-run causality going in both directions, implying that a mutually reinforcing element in past boom-bust cycles in credit and property markets cannot be ruled out.

Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2003-10
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