Chinese Real Estate Boom
It was a real estate bubble in residential and commercial real
estate in China. It caused the average housing prices in the
country to triple from 2005 to 2009, due to government policies and
cultural attitudes .
Japan Asset Price Bubble of 1980s
It was an economic bubble from 1986 to 1991 where real estate
and stock market prices were inflated greatly .
Similarities
- Both economy had growth strategy of export orientation and were
capital intensive.
- Both show a case of ' confidence trap' where government policy
stance was that they can achieve the optimal mix of market
liberalisation and repression, while believing that their political
economic system is distinguished from others.
- Government decision to adopt expansionary monetary policy and
aggressive approach were influenced by exogenous shocks.
Differences
- The Chinese case is influenced by approach of ' too secure to
fail' which promoted rent seeking attitude, thus aggravating hidden
systemic risks.
- Chinese case is different as it needed to liberalise it's
capital account with greater and more secured macroprudential
regulatory governance as the global foreign exchange markets had
changed drastically from the period of 1980s.