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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968748603321

Autore

Rabanal Pau

Titolo

The Drivers of Housing Cycles in Spain / / Pau Rabanal, Oriol Aspachs-Bracons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

9786613826152

9781462348701

146234870X

9781452767215

1452767211

9781283513708

1283513706

9781451917727

1451917724

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (63 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

Aspachs-BraconsOriol

Disciplina

363.5

Soggetti

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009

Monetary policy

Risk

Capacity

Capital

Consumption

Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis

Economics

Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy

Housing prices

Housing Supply and Markets

Housing

Income economics

Infrastructure

Intangible Capital

International Conflicts

Investment

Investments: General

Labor economics

Labor Economics: General

Labor



Labour

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Monetary Policy

National accounts

Negotiations

Prices

Property & real estate

Real Estate

Return on investment

Sanctions

Saving and investment

Saving

Wealth

Spain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"September 2009."

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures; Tables; I. Introduction; 1. Residential Investment (y-o-y real growth rate); 2. House Price Indices (y-o-y percent growth rate); 3. 3-Month T-Bill Rates in Spain and in the EMU; 4. Number of Households and Population. Annual Growth Rates; II. The Model; A. Households; B. Producers; B.1 Final Goods Producers; B.2 Intermediate Goods Producers; C. Closing the Model; C.1 Market Clearing Conditions; C.2 Monetary Policy Rule; III. Bayesian Estimation; A. Data; B. Priors and Posteriors; 1. Calibrated parameters

2a. Prior and Posterior Disributions5. Priors (black solid line) and Posteriors (red dashed line); 6. Priors (black solid line) and Posteriors (red dashed line); 2b. Prior and Posterior Disributions; C. Implications of the Model: Posterior Second Moments and Impulse Responses; C.1 Second Moments; 3a. Second Moments in Spain; 3b. Second Moments in the rest of EMU; 4. Variance Decomposition (in percent); C.2 Model Simulation; 7. Model Simulation with Smoothed Shocks. Percent Contribution of Each Shock to Overall Volatility; C.3 Impulse Responses

8. Posterior Impulse Responses (mean and 95% C.I.) to a Technology Shock in the Housing Sector9. Posterior Impulse Responses (mean and 95% C.I.) to a Preference Shock in the Housing Sector; 10. Posterior Impulse Responses (mean and 95% C.I.) to a Monetary Policy Shock in the Euro Area; IV. Robustness: The Role of Financial Frictions and Labor Market Rigidities; 5. Model Comparison; V. Conclusions; References; Footnotes

Sommario/riassunto

Since Spain joined the EMU, two main important factors behind the housing boom appear to be the decrease of nominal interest rates and demographic factors. In this paper we estimate a New Keynesian model of a currency area, using data for Spain and the rest of the EMU to study the importance of those factors. We also examine the role of different rigidities and find that labor market frictions are crucial to



explain main features of the data. On the other hand, financial frictions that impose a collateral constraint on borrowing do not appear to be relevant.