We investigate what determines China‘s housing price dynamics using a DSGE-VAR estimated withpriors allowing for the featured operating of normal and shadow banks in China, with data observedbetween 2001 and 2014. We find that the housing demand shock, which is the essential factor for housingprice bubbles to happen, accounts for near 90% of the housing price fluctuation. We also find that aprosperous housing market could have led to future economic growth, though quantitatively its marginalimpact is small. But this also means that, for policy-makers who wish to stabilise the housing market,the cost on output reduction would be rather limited. |