loan to increase lifetime savings are significantly more likely to underestimate their house value, while homeowners who … "cash-out refinance" an existing loan to fund current consumption are significantly more likely to overestimate their house …

Much of the literature on the effect of housing wealth on consumption has been embedded in a simple life-cycle model in … the classic Ando-Modigliani consumption function augmented by housing wealth can be deduced. It is shown that the deeper … population) as well as in mortgage markets have led to a structural break in the effect of housing wealth on consumption in the …

Much of the literature on the effect of housing wealth on consumption has been embedded in a simple life-cycle model in … changes in consumption. However, this might be a fallacy of composition. Such models ignore that changes in housing wealth … the classic Ando-Modigliani consumption function augmented by housing wealth can be deduced. It is shown that the deeper …

ex ante homeowners who rate (cash-out) refinance an existing loan to increase savings (consumption) are significantly …

impact of changes in wealth on household consumption and the overall macroeconomy. There is an extensive existing literature …The effect of wealth on consumption is an issue of longstanding interest to economists. Analysts believe that … fluctuations in household wealth have driven major swings in economic activity. This paper considers so-called wealth effects - the …

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 …

household final consumption for 11 advanced countries over the period from 1970 Q1 to 2015 Q4. As a modelling strategy, we …-panel and country-level analyses. In this respect, we find that consumption is mostly explained by income and housing wealth is … consumption and stock wealth. The evidence also suggests a long-run cointegration relationship among consumption, income, interest …

We use the Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a rather unique dataset with a long time dimension of panel … information on consumption, income and wealth, to structurally estimate a buffer-stock saving model. We exploit the information … contained in the joint dynamics of income, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk. The …

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 …