This paper explores integration and contagion among US metropolitan housing markets. The analysis applies Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) house price repeat sales indexes from 384 metropolitan areas to estimate a ...
Bredin, Donal; Hyde, Stuart(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004-03)
We examine the influence of US and UK macroeconomic and financial variables on Irish stock returns in a nonlinear framework. We allow for time variation via regime switching using a smooth transition
regression (STR) ...