House Price Synchronization and Financial Openness: A Dynamic Factor Model Approach

Download or read book House Price Synchronization and Financial Openness: A Dynamic Factor Model Approach written by Mitsuru Katagiri and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates the developments in house price synchronization across countries by a dynamic factor model using a country- and city-level dataset, and examines what drives the synchronization. The empirical results indicate that: (i) the degree of synchronization has been rising since the 1970s, and (ii) a large heterogeneity in the degree of synchronization exists across countries and cities. A panel and cross-sectional regression analysis show that the heterogeneity of synchronization is partly accounted for by the progress in financial and trade openness. Also, the city-level analysis implies that the international synchronization is mainly driven by the city-level connectivity between large and international cities.