What Happens to Banks When House Prices Fall? U.S. Regional Busts of the 1980s and 1990s (ICPSR 1337)

Version Date: Nov 29, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
David C. Wheelock, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01337.v1

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Summary

The recent rapid appreciation of house prices in many U.S. markets has prompted concern over the possible effects of a sharp decline in prices, especially for commercial banks and other real estate lenders. This article examines regional real estate booms and busts in the 1980s and 1990s: Only about half of state house price booms were followed by a severe decline in prices, but large house price declines experienced high loan default rates and, thus, low profit and high failure rates. Although U.S. banks may have become more exposed to residential real estate recently, they appear less vulnerable to a decline in house prices than banks in states with large price declines in the earlier period.

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Wheelock, David C. What Happens to Banks When House Prices Fall? U.S. Regional Busts of the 1980s and 1990s. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-11-29. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01337.v1

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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Research Division

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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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  1. (1) The file submitted is the data file 0609dwd.xls. (2) These data are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigators if further information is desired.

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2006-11-29

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2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Wheelock, David C. What Happens to Banks When House Prices Fall? U.S. Regional Busts of the 1980s and 1990s. ICPSR01337-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-11-29. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR01337.v1
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