Downward nominal house price rigidity: Evidence from three centuries of data on housing transactions
- Author:
- Solveig K. Erlandsen and Ragnar Enger Juelsrud
- Series:
- Working Paper
- Number:
- 1/2023
Abstract
By analyzing housing data from the period 1850 to 2019 in Norway, we find evidence of downward nominal house price rigidity. More specifically, we document that there is a marked fraction of repeat-sales housing transactions with a zero nominal price change and show that this fraction increases in housing market downturns. While the former result reveals a rigidity in nominal house prices, the latter suggests that the direction of it is predominantly downward.
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