What Goes Up Must Come Down? : House Price Dynamics in the United States /

This paper estimates the evolution of equilibrium real home prices in the United States and finds that despite recent declines, single-family homes remained 8 to 20 percent overvalued as of the first quarter of 2008. In the short run, the gap between actual and equilibrium prices does not exert powe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Klyuev, Vladimir
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/187
Online Access:Full text available on IMF