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RBA Glossary definition for interest rate

interest rate – The term used to describe the cost of borrowing money or the return to the owner of the funds which are invested or lent out. It is usually expressed as a percent per annum of the amount of money borrowed, lent or invested.

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Housing Construction Cycles and Interest Rates

1 Oct 2004 RDP 2004-08
Laura Berger-Thomson and Luci Ellis
Research Discussion Papers contain the results of economic research within the Reserve Bank
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2004/2004-08.html

Housing Construction Cycles and Interest Rates

1 Oct 2004 RDP 2004-08
Laura Berger-Thomson and Luci Ellis
Research Discussion Paper – RDP 2004-08 Housing Construction Cycles and Interest Rates.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2004/2004-08/

Appendix B: Econometric Results

31 Dec 2004 RDP 2004-08
Laura Berger-Thomson and Luci Ellis
0.11. †. 0.09. –. –. Interest rates (i). –. 0.00. –. –. Income (y). –. –. –. 0.16. †. CPI (p). –. 0.05. –. 0.012. †. Vacancy rate (v). –. –. 3.42. †. 1.56. Household growth (hh). –. –. 0.04. –. ... Interest rates (i).
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2004/2004-08/appendix-b.html

Empirical Estimates

31 Dec 2004 RDP 2004-08
Laura Berger-Thomson and Luci Ellis
We use the policy interest rate, not the mortgage rate, to ensure that we are comparing the effects of the same kinds of shocks to interest rates across countries. ... Because the inflation rate is already in the short-run dynamics to capture the effects
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2004/2004-08/empirical-estimates.html

Introduction

31 Dec 2004 RDP 2004-08
Laura Berger-Thomson and Luci Ellis
We find a dominant role for extrinsic interest-rate cyclicality in explaining the housing cycle. ... Although we do not formally model the response of permanent income to interest rates, it appears that the direct interest-rate effect and the indirect
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2004/2004-08/introduction.html

Appendix A: Data Sources

31 Dec 2004 RDP 2004-08
Laura Berger-Thomson and Luci Ellis
RDP 2004-08: Housing Construction Cycles and Interest Rates Appendix A: Data Sources. ... Policy interest rate. Interest rate targeted by central bank. Notes: The consumer price index for Australia excludes the effect of the GST.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2004/2004-08/appendix-a.html

Discussion of Results

31 Dec 2004 RDP 2004-08
Laura Berger-Thomson and Luci Ellis
In Canada, five-year fixed-rate mortgages predominate, consistent with its intermediate degree of responsiveness to interest rates. ... 0.056. 0.029. 0.032. 0.045. 0.048. 0.007. 0.010. Notes: Interest rates are held constant at their mean rate in the
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References

31 Dec 2004 RDP 2004-08
Laura Berger-Thomson and Luci Ellis
RDP 2004-08: Housing Construction Cycles and Interest Rates References. Laura Berger-Thomson and Luci Ellis. ... Throop AW (1986), ‘Financial deregulation, interest rates, and the housing cycle’, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Review,
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Conclusion

31 Dec 2004 RDP 2004-08
Laura Berger-Thomson and Luci Ellis
RDP 2004-08: Housing Construction Cycles and Interest Rates 6. Conclusion. Laura Berger-Thomson and Luci Ellis. ... If housing demand displayed similar interest sensitivity in all countries, we should expect that movements in rates would be translated
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Models of Housing Demand and Supply

31 Dec 2004 RDP 2004-08
Laura Berger-Thomson and Luci Ellis
and the price of finance (interest rates), as shown in Equation (4), while the scarcity of housing (the vacancy rate) matters at longer horizons. ... We use policy interest rates in all our models for cross-country comparability, even though this is not
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