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We investigate whether real exchange rate fluctuations contribute to the fluctuations in housing prices differently across local housing markets through the differential compositions of immigrants. We first develop a new measure of the immigrant-weighted local real exchange rate, which varies across areas and over time within Australia. Using this measure and a fixed-effect instrumental variables approach, we find that the growth in local real exchange rate positively affects housing price growth. This positive relationship is mainly driven by urban metropolitan areas.
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