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HOUSE PRICES, EXPECTATIONS,AND TIME-VARYING FUNDAMENTALS: DISCUSSION
Presented by A.G. Malliaris
AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
Allied Social Science Associations Annual MeetingsSan Diego, California, January 3-6, 2013
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Outline of Discussion
• Overview of Housing Prices• The Financial Crisis• Modeling Choices• Results• Comments
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US Housing Bubble and Monetary Policy
• Controversial Issue• Taylor’s Views• The Fed’s Views• More Practically: How to Respond to a
Growing Bubble?• The Asymmetric Approach: High Cost Ex-post• The Symmetric Approach: Cost Ex-ante
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Housing Bubbles and Institutions
• High Transactions Costs• Social Policies Favoring Housing• Forecasting Value of Collateral• Low Down Payment Compared to Equity• Difficulty to Sell Short• Tracking the Banks, Households, Firms, Public
Sector
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(%, Seasonally adjusted, inverted)
Unemployment Rate(right scale)
Sources: US Department of Labor, FRB
(2007=100, Seasonally adjusted)
Last seen in 2005
Unemployment rate:Last seen in 1983
Industrial Production:Last seen in 1997
Industrial Production(left scale)
Exhibit 4. US Economy Is still a Long Way from Previous Peak
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Exhibit 5. Euro-Zone Economy Is still a Long Way from Previous Peak
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(%, Seasonally adjusted, inverted)(Seasonally adjusted, 2005=100)
Industrial Production(left scale)
Unemployment Rate(right scale)
Last seen in 1997
Last seenin 2005
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Exhibit 11. Japan’s De-leveraging with Zero Interest Rates Lasted for 10 Years
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Borrowings from Financial Institutions (left scale)
Funds raised in Securities Markets (left scale)
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(% Nominal GDP, 4Q Moving Average) (%)
Sources: Bank of Japan, Cabinet Of f ice, Japan
Debt-financedbubble
(4 years)
Balance sheetrecession(16 years)
Funds Raised by Non-Financial Corporate Sector
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Important Contribution
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Behavioral Issues
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Concluding Comments
• Paper makes an important contribution by proposing and calibrating 3 models
• In view of major shifts in monetary policy does it make sense to check for robustness? Consider 1960 to 1994 and 1995 to 2011?
• Do the 3 models have implications for monetary policy?
• Possible use of Behavioral Finance Arguments such as momentum?
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