Banking Integration and House Price Comovement

Landier, Augustin; Sraer, David Alexandre; Thesmar, David

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2347315

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Banking Integration and House Price Comovement

HEC Paris Research Paper No. FIN-2013-1023

57 Pages Posted: 30 Oct 2013 Last revised: 24 Nov 2017

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David Alexandre Sraer

University of California, Berkeley; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

David Thesmar

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

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Date Written: September 18, 2015

Abstract

The correlation across US states in house price growth increased steadily between 1976 and 2000. This paper shows that the contemporaneous geographic integration of the US banking market, via the emergence of large banks, was a primary driver of this phenomenon. To this end, we first theoretically derive an appropriate measure of banking integration across state pairs and document that house price growth correlation is strongly related to this measure of financial integration. Our IV estimates suggest that banking integration can explain up to one fourth of the rise in house price correlation over this period.

Keywords: Banks; House price comovement; Financial Integration

JEL Classification: R31; G21; F36

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Landier, Augustin and Sraer, David Alexandre and Thesmar, David, Banking Integration and House Price Comovement (September 18, 2015). HEC Paris Research Paper No. FIN-2013-1023, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2347315 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2347315