Much of the literature on the effect of housing wealth on consumption has been embedded in a simple life-cycle model in … which housing price changes work as a "wealth effect". In such models, windfall gains in housing always lead to positive … changes in consumption. However, this might be a fallacy of composition. Such models ignore that changes in housing wealth …

Much of the literature on the effect of housing wealth on consumption has been embedded in a simple life-cycle model in … which housing price changes work as a "wealth effect". In such models, windfall gains in housing always lead to positive … wealth have distributional consequences between those planning to sell their house and those planning to buy a house. Further …

consumption decisions. Despite the fact that measuring housing wealth is crucial for understanding households' economic behavior … data requirements while still meeting international guidelines. Our results suggest housing wealth in Mexico has followed … enables the calculation of other popular indicators concerning households, such as housing equity and household total net …

Housing wealth is about one half of household net worth, and consumption is a considerable fraction (about two thirds …) of Gross Domestic Product in the United States. Empirically, movements in housing wealth are associated with movements in … wealth and consumption are linked together. A sizable portion of the comovement between housing wealth and consumption …

The study quantifies stock market and housing market wealth effects on households' non-durable consumption using … Italian household panel data (SHIW) of 1989-2002. We found all households react similarly to aggregate housing and stock … market gains. We also found statistically and economically significant housing wealth effects with a marginal propensity to …

wealth are closely linked to household characteristics, including income and demographic factors. Finally, underlying … structural changes in household characteristics point to potentially lower aggregate MPCs from wealth going forward …This paper analyzes the existence of 'wealth effects' derived from net equity (in the form of housing, financial assets …