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  "title": "How Long Do Housing Cycles Last? a Duration Analysis for 19 OECD Countries",
  "publication": "IMF Working Papers, October 1, 2011",
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  "summary": "This paper analyzes the duration of house price upturns and downturns in the last 40 years for 19 OECD countries. I provide two sets of results, one pertaining to the average length and the other to the length distribution.",
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      "content": "- Examines the duration of house price upturns and downturns over the last 40 years for 19 OECD countries.\n- Provides two complementary sets of results: average length and length distribution of housing cycle phases."
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      "content": "- On average, upturns are longer than downturns.\n- The average difference between upturn and downturn length disappears once the last house price boom is excluded.\n- In terms of length distribution:\n  - Upturns (but not downturns) are more likely to end as their duration increases.\n  - This observed duration dependence for upturns is consistent with a boom-bust view of house price dynamics, where booms represent departures from fundamentals that are increasingly difficult to sustain."
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      "content": "- Duration Dependence\n- Upturn equation; downturn equation\n- Business cycles; Housing Cycles\n- House price upturn; house price downturn\n- Housing prices; Inflation; interest rate\n- National accounts; Prices\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- wp11231\n  - wp11231 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - wp11231 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2016/12/31/how-long-do-housing-cycles-last-a-duration-analysis-for-19-oecd-countries-25271"
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    "Authors: Philippe Bracke",
    "Published: October 1, 2011",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781463921316.001",
    "Examines the duration of house price upturns and downturns over the last 40 years for 19 OECD countries.",
    "Provides two complementary sets of results: average length and length distribution of housing cycle phases.",
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