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The Regime Shift Associated with the 2004-2008 US Housing Market Bubble.


ABSTRACT: The Subprime Bubble preceding the Subprime Crisis of 2008 was fueled by risky lending practices, manifesting in the form of a large abrupt increase in the proportion of subprime mortgages issued in the US. This event also coincided with critical slowing down signals associated with instability, which served as evidence of a regime shift or phase transition in the US housing market. Here, we show that the US housing market underwent a regime shift between alternate stable states consistent with the observed critical slowing down signals. We modeled this regime shift on a universal transition path and validated the model by estimating when the bubble burst. Additionally, this model reveals loose monetary policy to be a plausible cause of the phase transition, implying that the bubble might have been deflatable by a timely tightening of monetary policy.

SUBMITTER: Tan J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5008684 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The Regime Shift Associated with the 2004-2008 US Housing Market Bubble.

Tan James J   Cheong Siew Ann SA  

PloS one 20160901 9


The Subprime Bubble preceding the Subprime Crisis of 2008 was fueled by risky lending practices, manifesting in the form of a large abrupt increase in the proportion of subprime mortgages issued in the US. This event also coincided with critical slowing down signals associated with instability, which served as evidence of a regime shift or phase transition in the US housing market. Here, we show that the US housing market underwent a regime shift between alternate stable states consistent with t  ...[more]

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