Housing Market Activity and Macroeconomic Variables: An Analysis of Turkish Dwelling Market under New Mortgage System
Abstract
The primary purpose of this paper is to examine dynamic causal relationships between housing market activity (construction permits for private use) and six determinants, including consumer price index (CPI), monetary aggregate (M2), interest rate (IR), industrial production index (IPI), real estate investment trusts’ indices (REITIX) and volume of mortgage loans (ML), in Turkish dwelling market under new mortgage system. Granger causality tests, impulse response functions and variance decomposition models are utilized for the period 2002 to 2007.
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Primary Language
English
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Journal Section
Research Article
Publication Date
October 14, 2009
Submission Date
February 27, 2012
Acceptance Date
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Published in Issue
Year 2009 Volume: 38 Number: 1