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Do demographic changes affect house prices?

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The paper tests the idea that major demographic shifts can affect housing prices. We first build an overlapping generation model and analytically solve for the equilibrium price of the asset. The model predicts that economies with a higher fraction of old people in the overall population have lower house prices. We empirically test this hypothesis using data on house prices and demographic variables from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). We find that if population growth increases by one percentage point, house price growth increases by 1.4 percentage points.

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  • Gevorgyan, Kristine, 2019. "Do demographic changes affect house prices?," Journal of Demographic Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 85(4), pages 305-320, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:demeco:v:85:y:2019:i:4:p:305-320_2
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    1. Jiří Pour, . "Ceny nemovitostí a dlouhodobé úrokové sazby [House prices and long-term interest rates]," Politická ekonomie, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 0.
    2. Jiří Pour, 2023. "Ceny nemovitostí a dlouhodobé úrokové sazby [House prices and long-term interest rates]," Politická ekonomie, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2023(6), pages 668-708.
    3. Cheng-Hong Yang & Borcy Lee & Yu-Da Lin, 2022. "Effect of Money Supply, Population, and Rent on Real Estate: A Clustering Analysis in Taiwan," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 10(7), pages 1-17, April.
    4. Rafael González-Val & Miriam Marcén, 2024. "Divorce law reforms and house prices in Europe," European Journal of Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 58(3), pages 517-549, December.

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    JEL classification:

    • E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
    • E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
    • J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts

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