A STOCHASTIC APPROACH TO MODEL HOUSING MARKETS: THE US HOUSING MARKET CASE

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Yilmaz B., Selcuk-Kestel A. S.

NUMERICAL ALGEBRA CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION, cilt.8, sa.4, ss.481-492, 2018 (ESCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 8 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2018
  • Doi Numarası: 10.3934/naco.2018030
  • Dergi Adı: NUMERICAL ALGEBRA CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.481-492
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Housing index, Mortgage rate, Stochastic differential equations, Forecasting, Calibration, FORECASTING PERFORMANCE, TERM STRUCTURE, PRICES, OPTIONS, VALUATION, CREDIT, CYCLES
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This study aims to estimate the price changes in housing markets using a stochastic process, which is defined in the form of stochastic differential equations (SDEs). It proposes a general SDEs system on the price structure in terms of house price index and mortgage rate to establish an effective process. As an empirical analysis, it applies a calibration procedure to an SDE on monthly S&P/Case-Shiller US National Home Price Index (HPI) and 30-year fixed mortgage rate to estimate parameters of differentiable functions defined in SDEs. The prediction power of the proposed stochastic model is justified through a Monte Carlo algorithm for one-year ahead monthly forecasts of the HPI returns. The results of the study show that the stochastic processes are flexible in terms of the choice of structure, compact with respect to the number of exogenous variables involved, and it is a literal method. Furthermore, this approach has a relatively high estimation power in forecasting the national house prices.