Do Central Banks React to House Prices?

作者:Finocchiaro Daria*; Von Heideken Virginia Queijo
来源:Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2013, 45(8): 1659-1683.
DOI:10.1111/jmcb.12065

摘要

We estimate the Federal Reserve's, the Bank of England's, and the Bank of Japan's responses to house prices. We show that generalized method of moments estimates of a Taylor rule augmented with house prices are biased and dispersed. We then use full-information methods and estimate the policy rule together with a VAR for the nonpolicy variables. These estimates are also biased. We propose an alternative approach and estimate a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model embedded with a monetary rule with a direct response to house prices. We find that house prices played a separate role in the reaction functions of these central banks.

  • 出版日期2013-12