Since the 2008 global financial crisis, China’s economic growth has continued to slow down, while its real estate market has experienced prolonged prosperity with some stylized facts. Each round of housing price increases has exhibited the common pattern of first soaring and then growing...

In this study, we estimate and investigate the evolution of monetary rules in China and the UnitedStates during the 21st century. Our aim is to examine whether financial stability has been takeninto consideration in practical monetary policy decision making. By proposing a new estimation method...

New vehicle sales in the U.S. fell nearly 40 percent during the last recession, causing significant job losses and unprecedented government interventions in the auto industry. This paper explores two potential explanations for this decline: falling home values and falling households’...

There exist sticky price models in which the output response to a government spending change can be large if the central bank is nonresponsive to inflation. According to this "expected inflation channel," government spending drives up expected inflation, which in turn, reduces the real interest...