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• Can the Common-Factor Hypothesis Explain the Observed Housing Wealth Effect?

  Staff working paper 2016-62 Narayan Bulusu, Jefferson Duarte, Carles Vergara-Alert

  The common-factor hypothesis is one possible explanation for the housing wealth effect. Under this hypothesis, house price appreciation is related to changes in consumption as long as the available proxies for the common driver of housing and non-housing demand are noisy and housing supply is not perfectly elastic.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers JEL Code(s): E, E2, E21, R, R3, R31 Research Theme(s): Financial system, Household and business credit, Models and tools, Economic models, Monetary policy, Real economy and forecasting