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The cause and outcomes of the ripple effect: housing prices and transaction volume

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In this study, the ripple effect in four regional housing markets in the USA (Northeast, Midwest, South, and West) was examined by analyzing housing prices, which is a method that has been primarily used in other studies, and the transfer of information in the transaction volume data of regional markets. First, the ripple index between regional housing markets was estimated using housing price and transaction volume. Findings revealed that the ripple effect in the transaction volume of regional housing markets was far more evident than that in housing prices and that the two types of ripple effect are negatively correlated. In other words, information between regional housing markets is either transferred through price or volume. In this study, monetary policy, overall economic performance, and new housing market were adopted as variables to analyze the cause and outcomes of the ripple effect. The results show that inflation stemming from an excess supply of money causes a ripple effect of rising regional housing prices. This money illusion leads contractors to believe that the housing market has increasing demand, motivating them to enter into new projects. Once these projects are completed, the increase in supply (new homes for sale) is reflected in the transaction volume of the regional housing market. In this instance, a stagnation in housing prices signifies that information is only transferred in the transaction volume. In short, the rise (housing boom) and fall (housing depression) of transaction volume affect interest rates in the mortgage market.

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  1. For more details of the geographic location of the regions and the regional reports of population, demographic and housing unit estimates, please visit the following website: https://www.census.gov/.

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Funding from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan under Project No. MOST-104-2410-H-390-028-MY3 has enabled the continuation of this research and the dissemination of these results.

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Tsai, IC. The cause and outcomes of the ripple effect: housing prices and transaction volume. Ann Reg Sci 61, 351–373 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-018-0870-9

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