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The Size of the Rental Market and Housing Market Fluctuations

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  • Adam Czerniak

    (SGH Warsaw School of Economics)

  • Michał Rubaszek

    (Narodowy Bank Polski)

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The paper investigates whether the size of the rental market affects house prices fluctuations or the volatility of construction sector activity over the business cycle. For that purpose we construct a database of variables describing the housing sector in a group of twelve initial euro area members and ten other OECD countries over the years 1995–2014 and conduct a series of panel regressions. We find that a developed rental market attenuates fluctuations in the housing sector, especially for the common currency area sample. We claim that differences among monetary union countries in terms of rental market developments can be destabilizing as they might lead to heterogeneous response to common shocks.

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  • Adam Czerniak & Michał Rubaszek, 2018. "The Size of the Rental Market and Housing Market Fluctuations," Open Economies Review, Springer, vol. 29(2), pages 261-281, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:openec:v:29:y:2018:i:2:d:10.1007_s11079-017-9452-1
    DOI: 10.1007/s11079-017-9452-1
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    Rental market; Housing sector; Panel data; Monetary union;
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    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • F45 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Macroeconomic Issues of Monetary Unions
    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure

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