Article:

Shadow Banking and the Property Market in China

Author: Rose Neng Lai, Robert Van Order

Start Page: 359
End Page: 397
Volume: 22
Issue Number: 3
Year: 2019
Publication: International Real Estate Review

Abstract:

This paper studies the evolution of property values and the connections between shadow banking and property markets in China. We use Pooled Mean Group estimation to analyze Chinese house prices in 65 cities from 2007-2016, define the "fundamentals" of housing prices with the Gordon dividend discount model, and use lagged rents, prices, real and nominal interest rates, and shadow banking activity as short term explanatory factors. We find that the cities tend to share long run fundamentals and adjust relatively quickly to deviations from the fundamentals. We do not find bubbles; rather houses are like growth stocks with house prices rapidly chasing growing rents. More importantly, we find that house prices increase more quickly with the availability of shadow banking funds, which have grown rapidly.

Keywords

Chinese Housing Market, Shadow Banking, Pooled Mean Group Estimation

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