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- Title
MONETARY POLICY, HOUSING BOOMS, AND FINANCIAL (IM)BALANCES.
- Authors
Eickmeier, Sandra; Hofmann, Boris
- Abstract
This paper applies a factor-augmented vector autoregressive model to U.S. data with the aim of analyzing monetary transmission via private sector balance sheets, credit risk spreads, and house prices and of exploring the role of monetary policy in the housing and credit boom prior to the global financial crisis. We find that monetary policy shocks have a persistent effect on house prices, real estate wealth, and private sector debt and a strong short-lived effect on risk spreads in money and mortgage markets. Moreover, the results suggest that monetary policy contributed considerably to the unsustainable precrisis developments in housing and credit markets. Although monetary policy shocks contributed discernibly at a late stage of the boom, feedback effects of other (macroeconomic and financial) shocks via lower policy rates kicked in earlier and appear to have been considerable.
- Subjects
MONETARY policy; ECONOMIC impact; PRIVATE sector; FINANCIAL crises; ECONOMIC shock; HOME prices; MACROECONOMICS
- Publication
Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2013, Vol 17, Issue 4, p830
- ISSN
1365-1005
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1365100511000721