Betting the House

Oscar Jorda, Moritz Schularick and Alan Taylor

No 20771, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Is there a link between loose monetary conditions, credit growth, house price booms, and financial instability? This paper analyzes the role of interest rates and credit in driving house price booms and busts with data spanning 140 years of modern economic history in the advanced economies. We exploit the implications of the macroeconomic policy trilemma to identify exogenous variation in monetary conditions: countries with fixed exchange regimes often see fluctuations in short-term interest rates unrelated to home economic conditions. We use novel instrumental variable local projection methods to demonstrate that loose monetary conditions lead to booms in real estate lending and house prices bubbles; these, in turn, materially heighten the risk of financial crises. Both effects have become stronger in the postwar era.

JEL-codes: C14 C38 E32 E37 E42 E44 E51 E52 F41 G01 G21 N10 N20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-12
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Published as Betting the House , Òscar Jordà, Moritz Schularick, Alan M. Taylor. in NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2014 , Clarida, Frankel, Giavazzi, and Rey. 2015
Published as Jordà, Òscar & Schularick, Moritz & Taylor, Alan M., 2015. "Betting the house," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 96(S1), pages S2-S18.

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