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The Spanish housing market: is it fundamentally broken?

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  • Juan Carlos Cuestas
  • Merike Kukk

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This paper aims to investigate the relationship between housing prices and their main fundamental determinants using the example of Spain and considering the possibility of structural breaks in the relationship. We find that the cointegrating coefficient estimates are quite unstable over 2001Q1-2017Q4 and need to be estimated for different subperiods. Specifically we find that the main long-run fundamentals explain the behaviour of equilibrium house prices well during the boom-bust period. However, only corporate profit, or capital income, seems to explain the evolution after the recovery from the recession.

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  • Juan Carlos Cuestas & Merike Kukk, 2020. "The Spanish housing market: is it fundamentally broken?," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(15), pages 1295-1299, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:27:y:2020:i:15:p:1295-1299
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2019.1677844
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    1. Juan Carlos Cuestas & Merike Kukk & Natalia Levenko, 2023. "Misalignments in house prices and economic growth in Europe," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(28), pages 3215-3237, June.
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    4. Juan Carlos Cuestas & Mercedes Monfort & Javier Ordóñez, 2022. "House prices in Spain: Is it always sunny and warm?," Working Papers 2022/07, Economics Department, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (Spain).

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    • E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
    • E51 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers
    • R20 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - General

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