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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18540| Title: | What Drives Personal Consumption? The Role of Housing and Financial Wealth |
| Keywords: | C22 E32 E21 ddc:330 housing prices wealth effect consumption dynamics portfolio choice |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
| Publisher: | Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin |
| Description: | I construct a new dataset with financial and housing wealth in 16 countries and investigate the effect of wealth on consumption. The baseline estimation method based on the sluggishness of consumption growth implies that the long-run marginal propensity to consume out of total wealth averaged across countries is 5 cents. I find substantial heterogeneity in the wealth effects: the individual country estimates typically lie between 0 and 10 cents. The wealth effects are more powerful in market-based, Anglo?Saxon and non euro area economies. The effect of housing wealth is somewhat smaller than that of financial wealth for most countries, but not the US and the UK. The housing wealth effect has risen substantially after 1988 as it has become easier to borrow against housing wealth. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18540 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18540 ppn:521129273 |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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