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Housing Value and Consumption in Europe: Micro-Findings from Post-Financial Crisis Data

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  • Karolis Bielskis

    (Bank of Lithuania and Vilnius University)

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Additional housing equity collateral can loosen borrowing constraints and increase spending for households that value their home highly. However, rising home values also raise the cost of living via higher imputed rental costs, offsetting their impact on consumption. Usage of Household Finance and Consumption Survey microdata and third-party evaluation of housing value enable identification of the causal effect of house price changes on consumer spending. This paper is one of the first that explores this relationship Europeanwide with an application of an instrumental variable technique. The paper identifies heterogeneities among different households based on their housing status. A $1 increase in home values leads to a $0.127 increase in spending for homeowners overall, and $0.185 for homeowners with mortgages specifically. Results reflect large responses among credit-constrained households, suggesting borrowing constraints as one of the key drivers of the MPC out of housing wealth.

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  • Karolis Bielskis, 2022. "Housing Value and Consumption in Europe: Micro-Findings from Post-Financial Crisis Data," Bank of Lithuania Working Paper Series 106, Bank of Lithuania.
    • Handle: RePEc:lie:wpaper:106
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    Keywords

    Housing Wealth; House Prices; Household Consumption;
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    JEL classification:

    • E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
    • G51 - Financial Economics - - Household Finance - - - Household Savings, Borrowing, Debt, and Wealth
    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure

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