Real economic impact of housing market explored

The Bank of Italy has published research looking at the US housing sector's impact on the real economy.

The research, which uses a two-sector model to quantify the contribution of the US housing market to business fluctuations, has three key findings:

· a large fraction of the upward trend in real housing prices over the last 40 years can be accounted for by slow technological progress in the housing sector;

· residential investment and housing prices are very sensitive to monetary policy and

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