To put this in perspective, consider the magnitude of the run-up in house prices in the United States over 2000–06. Figure 2 shows the U.S. house price-to-rent ratio over the past 40 years. In the five years running up to the peak in the spring of 2006, the house price-to-rent ratio increased over 50%. Based on the empirical estimates described above, to offset this increase using monetary policy would require a decline in real GDP per capita of over 12%. That is far larger than the 5½% peak-to-trough decline in real GDP per capita the United States actually experienced in the Great Recession. Jordà, Schularick, and Taylor (2015b) conduct a similar analysis using a different measure of house price overvaluation, and reach the same overall conclusion.