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The declining elasticity of US housing supply

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Bruno Albuquerque, Knut Are Aastveit and André Anundsen. We find that US housing supply has become less elastic since the crisis, with bigger declines in places where land-use regulation has tightened the most, and in areas that had larger price declines during the crisis. The 1996-2006 boom vs the 2012-2017 recovery.

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Monetary policy and US housing expansions: what can we expect for the post-COVID-19 housing recovery?

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Bruno Albuquerque, Martin Iseringhausen and Frédéric Opitz. House prices in the United States had been increasing at a strong pace in the years before the pandemic shock struck. Bruno Albuquerque works in the Bank’s Macro-Financial Risks Division and Martin Iseringhausen and Frédéric Opitz work at Ghent University.

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