Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71098 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionspapier No. 124
Publisher: 
Helmut-Schmidt-Universität - Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre, Hamburg
Abstract: 
While most economists agree that the recent worldwide financial crises evolved as a consequence of the US house price bubble, the related literature yet failed to deliver a consensus on the question when exactly the bubble started developing. The estimates in the literature range in between 1997 and 2002, while applications of market-based-procedures deliver even later dates. In this paper we employ the methods of statistical process control (SPC) to date the likely beginning of the bubble. The results support the view that the bubble on the US house market already emerged as early as 1996. We also show that SPC in general might be a useful tool in constructing early warning systems for asset price bubbles.
Subjects: 
statistical process control
real estate
asset prices bubbles
early warning systems
JEL: 
C32
E44
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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