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Fooled by Search: Housing Prices, Turnover and Bubbles
Staff Working Paper 2012-3
Brian Peterson
his paper develops and estimates a model to explain the behaviour of house prices in the United States. The main finding is that over 70% of the increase in house prices relative to trend during the increase of house prices in the United States from 1995 to 2006 can be explained by a pricing mechanism where market participants are ‘Fooled by Search.’
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff working papers
Topic(s):
Asset pricing,
Business fluctuations and cycles
JEL Code(s):
E,
E3,
R,
R2,
R21
A Foreign Activity Measure for Predicting Canadian Exports
Staff Discussion Paper 2012-1
Louis Morel
The author constructs a measure of foreign activity that takes into account the composition of foreign demand for Canadian exports. It has a number of interesting features.
Content Type(s):
Staff research,
Staff discussion papers
Topic(s):
Balance of payments and components,
Exchange rates,
Recent economic and financial developments
JEL Code(s):
E,
E0,
E00,
F,
F1,
F17
February 2, 2012
Banking Crises and Contagion: Empirical Evidence
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Financial System Review articles
February 1, 2012
Measuring Financial Stress
Content Type(s):
Publications,
Financial System Review articles