House Prices and Stock Prices: Different Roles in the US Monetary Transmission Mechanism*

Stock prices and house prices: Which one affects the other?

Stocks and houses as two major assets which play important role in the balance sheet of Iranian households. Changes in two markets have a large influence on wealth and the general economy. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between stock and house prices over a thirty-year period using vector auto-regression (VAR). Using yearly data for the period from 1985 to 2013, we con...

House Price Rigidity and the Asymmetric Response of Housing Prices to Monetary Policy in Iran

This paper examines downward price rigidity in Iranian house market and discusses whether this characteristic would result in an asymmetric relationship between house price and monetary policy. To test the downward house price rigidity the threshold GARCH model is employed. The asymmetric adjustment to monetary policy is examined using the asymmetric cointegration and error correction models. T...

The Weekly Structure of Us Stock Prices

In this paper we use fractional integration techniques to examine the degree of integration of four US stock market indices, namely the Standard and Poor, Dow Jones, Nasdaq and NYSE, at a daily frequency from January 2005 till December 2009. We analyse the weekly structure of the series and investigate their characteristics depending on the specific day of the week. The results indicate that th...

US Stock Prices and Macroeconomic Fundamentals

Monetary Policy and Stock Prices in a DSGE Framework

Is the Federal Reserve at all concerned with stock market performance, as the observation of its recent conduct might seem to suggest? Is there a theoretical scope for such a concern? This paper addresses both questions, presenting and estimating a small structural model that provides a theoretical rationale for looking at equity prices in conducting Monetary Policy. The focus is on the effects...