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This paper aims to investigate the relationship between housing prices and their main fundamental determinants using the example of Spain and considering the possibility of structural breaks in the relationship. We find that the cointegrating coefficient estimates are quite unstable over 2001Q1-2017Q4 and need to be estimated for different subperiods. Specifically we find that the main long-run fundamentals explain the behaviour of equilibrium house prices well during the boom-bust period. However, only corporate profit, or capital income, seems to explain the evolution after the recovery from the recession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we aim to investigate how the relationships of falls and rises in the oil price with the unemployment rate and the equilibrium unemployment rate differ in the case of Spain. It is found that while oil price movements do not have an effect on unemployment, they do have a differential effect on the equilibrium rate of unemployment for our target country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of oil price shocks on unemployment in an oil-importing country such as Spain to determine whether they affect unemployment differently in times of financial distress. In order to do so, we use Bayesian methods to estimate a SVAR model with endogenous oil shocks. According to our results, the response of unemployment to oil shocks is clearly different in the pre-crisis compared to the crisis period. Asymmetries are also an important feature of the data: positive oil shocks contributed negatively to the evolution of employment in Spain after the outbreak of the crisis, while any decreases had less of an effect in terms of a recovery in the employment rate. • We analyse the effect of oil price shocks on unemployment in an oil-importing country such as Spain. • The response of unemployment to oil shocks is different during financial distress. • Asymmetries are also an important feature of the data. • Policies need to be implemented to protect against oil prices passthrough to unemployment. • Policies need to be designed so as to allow drops in the oil price to benefit the unemployed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]