Modelling the housing markettheoretical and empirical analyses of some OECD countries, 1970-2011

  1. GONZALEZ MARTINEZ, ANA ROSA
Supervised by:
  1. Philip Arestis Director

Defence university: Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

Fecha de defensa: 21 January 2014

Committee:
  1. Marisol Esteban Galarza Chair
  2. Amaia Altuzarra Artola Secretary
  3. Guglielmo M. Caporale Committee member
  4. Giuseppe Fontana Committee member
  5. Alfonso Palacio Vera Committee member

Type: Thesis

Teseo: 116478 DIALNET

Abstract

The evolution of housing bubbles in teh main world economies and the severe consequences of their burst, motivate the study of those factors, which determine house prices, by paying special attention to those variables that are related to monetary and fiscal policies. Our analysis also accounts for the impact of demographics and the external sector in order to generalize a nationwide housing model, which explains the relationship among house-prices, real residential investment and bank credit. After developing our theoretical model, we proceed to test it in the case o f15 OECD economies over the period 1970-2011. We estimate our model in each country by means of cointegration techniques in order to analyse the different characteristics of the housing and the credit market in each country under investigation.