02209cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF014990 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781484346037 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Cesa-Bianchi, Ambrogio. Global Liquidity, House Prices, and the Macroeconomy : Evidence from Advanced and Emerging Economies / Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi, Luis Felipe Cespedes, Alessandro Rebucci. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015. 1 online resource (43 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 In this paper we first compare house price cycles in advanced and emerging economies using a new quarterly house price data set covering the period 1990-2012. We find that house prices in emerging economies grow faster, are more volatile, less persistent and less synchronized across countries than in advanced economies. We also find that they correlate with capital flows more closely than in advanced economies. We then condition the analysis on an exogenous change to a particular component of capital flows. We find that a global liquidity shock, identified by aggregating bank-to-bank cross border flows and by using the external instrumental variable approach of Stock and Watson (2012) and Mertens and Ravn (2013), has a much stronger impact on house prices and consumption in emerging markets than in advanced economies. In our empirical model, holding house prices or the exchange rate constant in response to this shock tends to dampen its effects on consumption in emerging economies. Mode of access: Internet Cespedes, Luis Felipe. Rebucci, Alessandro. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/023 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2015/023/001.2015.issue-023-en.xml IMF e-Library