Do Lower Mortgage Rates Mean Higher Housing Prices?

Authors

James McGibany, Marquette UniversityFollow
Farrokh Nourzad, Marquette UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Format of Original

9 p.

Publication Date

2004

Publisher

Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Source Publication

Applied Economics

Source ISSN

0003-6846

Abstract

Much research has shown that mortgage rates exert a negative influence on housing prices. This study analyses the long- and short-run relationships between housing prices and mortgage rates using advanced nonstructural estimation methods. As expected, a bivariate specification and a four-variable housing demand specification both show that these variables have a long-run relationship, and that there is a rather inelastic response of housing prices to changes in mortgage rates. However, contrary to previous research, the results from Granger non-causality tests, impulse response functions and variance decompositions reveal that there is virtually no short-run influence from mortgage rates to housing prices.

Comments

Applied Economics, Vol. 36, No. 4 (2004): 305-313. DOI.

Recommended Citation

McGibany, James and Nourzad, Farrokh, "Do Lower Mortgage Rates Mean Higher Housing Prices?" (2004). Economics Faculty Research and Publications. 60.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/econ_fac/60