Using narrative evidence, we investigate the causal effect of consumer confidenceon the housing market dynamics. We adopt an external instrument approach thatis using mass fatalities to identify exogenous variations in consumer confidence. Wefind …
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Residential and commercial real estate account for a substantial share of both household wealth and capital stock in the EU countries and the US. More specifically in the US, one-third of household net worth is held in residential real estate, whilst …