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Journal of Banking & Finance Vol. 112 2020

Home, safe home: Cross-country monitoring framework for vulnerabilities in the residential real estate sector

Elias Bengtsson1; Magdalena Grothe2; Etienne Lepers

1 Halmstad University · 2 European Central Bank

Abstract

This paper presents and assesses a framework for monitoring vulnerabilities related to the residential real estate sector, which can be easily employed for policy purposes. The framework provides intuitive and transparent early warning signals through a composite vulnerability measure, which aggregates indicators in a model-free way across three dimensions of real estate sector vulnerabilities (i.e. valuation, household indebtedness and the bank credit cycle). Our vulnerability measure proves to be a significant predictor of historical real estate crises, with a better forecasting performance than the majority of advantageously in-sample calibrated model-based measures.

DOI
10.1016/j.jbankfin.2017.12.006
Volume
112
Pages
105268
Language
en
Sources
openalex crossref bibtex:phds-export.bib

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