Housing market dynamics : any news?

This paper quantifes the importance of news shocks for housing market fluctuations. To this purpose, we extend Iacoviello and Neri (2010) s model of the housing market to include news shocks and estimate it using Bayesian methods and U.S. data. We find that news shocks: (1) account for a sizable fra...

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Main Author: Gomes, Sandra (author)
Other Authors: Mendicino, Catarina (author)
Format: workingPaper
Language:eng
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/4576
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:www.repository.utl.pt:10400.5/4576