A Study of the Bidirectional Relationship between House Prices and Rental Prices in Iran: A Bootstrap Approach using Quantile Regression with MCMB-A Method

The objective of this research is to examine the bidirectional relationship between house prices and house rental prices in Iran from the first quarter of 2002 to the fourth quarter of 2019. Granger causality tests and the bootstrap approach of quantile regression, specifically employing the MCMB-A Method, are utilized for the investigation. The results of the Granger causality test indicate a two-way causal relationship between house prices and house rental prices. The bootstrap method of quantile regression reveals that, across all deciles, house rental prices exert a significant positive impact on house prices. Notably, the coefficient of house rental prices exhibits an increasing trend from the first to the sixth decile, reaching its maximum value in the sixth decile, and subsequently decreasing from the seventh to the ninth decile. Additionally, across all deciles, house prices demonstrate a significant positive impact on house rental prices. Throughout the deciles, the coefficient of house prices experiences a decreasing trend from the first to the fourth decile, reaching its lowest value in the fourth decile, followed by an increasing trend from the fifth decile to the ninth decile, reaching its maximum value in the ninth decile.