01732cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF011318 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781463921316 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Bracke, Philippe. How Long Do Housing Cycles Last? : a Duration Analysis for 19 OECD Countries / Philippe Bracke. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011. 1 online resource (29 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper analyzes the duration of house price upturns and downturns in the last 40 years for 19 OECD countries. I provide two sets of results, one pertaining to the average length and the other to the length distribution. On average, upturns are longer than downturns, but the difference disappears once the last house price boom is excluded. In terms of length distribution, upturns (but not downturns) are more likely to end as their duration increases. This duration dependence is consistent with a boom-bust view of house price dynamics, where booms represent departures from fundamentals that are increasingly difficult to sustain. Mode of access: Internet United States imf IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2011/231 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2011/231/001.2011.issue-231-en.xml IMF e-Library