THE INTERACTION BETWEEN MONETARY POLICY AND HOUSING PRICES: EVIDENCES FOR THE BRAZILIAN CASE

Abstract

This research has the purpose to estimate the degree of interrelationship between housing prices and monetary policy decisions in Brazil. This relationship was obtained through a signal restricted SVAR model for quarterly data sample for the periods between 2001 and 2014. The results demonstrated that inflation, consumption, real GDP of the economy and housing prices responds negatively to a restrictive monetary shock. A shock in housing prices promoted a positive wealth effect, positively affecting consumption and GDP. In other hand, the increase in housing prices affected negatively inflation in the firsts three quarters, soon after, the economy’s general price level rose again, getting above the initial level. This effect on inflation made the interest rate to follow the behavior described by this indicator and initially responded negatively to a rising in housing prices, increasing from the third quarter.