20世纪50年代美国经历了出生人数的大幅度增加，在70年代这个婴儿潮一代成为成年人并开始组织自己的家庭。 a．

20世纪50年代美国经历了出生人数的大幅度增加，在70年代这个婴儿潮一代成为成年人并开始组织自己的家庭。

a．用居住投资模型预测，这一事件对住房价格和居住投资的影响。

b．计算20世纪70年代和80年代的住房的实际价格，这种价格用居住投资平减指数除以GDP平减指数来衡量。你发现了什么？这种发现与模型一致吗？(提示：一个好的数据来源是每年出版的《总统经济报告》(Economic Report of the President))

The United States experienced a large increase in the number of births in the 1950s. People in this baby-boom generation reached adulthood and started forming their own households in the 1970s.

a．Use the model of residential investment to predict the impact of this event on housing prices and residential investment.

b．For the years 1970 and 1980, compute the real price of housing, measured as the residential investment deflator divided by the GDP deflator. What do you find？ Is this finding consistent with the model？ (Hint: A good source of data is the Economic Report of the president, which is published annually)