Forecasting Housing Prices with Google Econometrics

38 Pages Posted: 25 Jul 2009 Last revised: 25 May 2015

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Rajendra Kulkarni

Schar School of Policy & Government, GMU

Kingsley E. Haynes

Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University

Roger R. Stough

George Mason University - School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs

Jean H. P. Paelinck

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Economics; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

Abstract

In this research note we report on our current efforts on developing a leading indicator of housing prices that could be used to forecast housing prices. Specifically we use Google search index at city level to predict Case-Shiller index. The methodology is based on Granger causality where we carry out two way regressions with lagged variables and joint F-tests to determine the direction of causality.

Keywords: Case-Shiller Index, Granger Causality, Google econometrics, HPI, Search engine

JEL Classification: C10, C20, C30, C40, C50

Suggested Citation

Kulkarni, Rajendra and Haynes, Kingsley E. and Stough, Roger R. and Paelinck, Jean H. P., Forecasting Housing Prices with Google Econometrics. GMU School of Public Policy Research Paper No. 2009-10, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1438286 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1438286

Rajendra Kulkarni (Contact Author)

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Kingsley E. Haynes

Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University ( email )

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Roger R. Stough

George Mason University - School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs ( email )

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Jean H. P. Paelinck

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Department of Economics ( email )

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