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House Prices and Risk Sharing

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  • Hryshko, Dmytro

    () (University of Alberta, Department of Economics)

  • Luengo-Prado, Maria

    () (Northeastern University)

  • Sorensen, Bent

    () (University of Houston)

Abstract

Homeowners in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics are able to maintain a high level of consumption following job loss (or disability) in periods of rising local house prices while the consumption drop for homeowners who lose their job in times of lower house prices is substantial. These results are consistent with homeowners being able to access wealth gains when housing appreciates as witnessed by their ability to smooth consumption more than renters. A calibrated model of endogenous homeownership and consumption is able to reproduce the patterns in the data quite well and provides an interpretation of the empirical results.

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Paper provided by University of Alberta, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 2010-16.

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Length: 52 pages
Date of creation: 01 Sep 2010
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Handle: RePEc:ris:albaec:2010_016

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  1. Houses are a poor way to share risk
    by Economic Logician in Economic Logic on 2009-11-02 15:26:00
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  1. Punzi, Maria Teresa, 2012. "Housing market and current account imbalances in the international economy," Research Discussion Papers 1/2012, Bank of Finland.
  2. Michael Amior & Jonathan Halket, 2011. "Do Households Use Homeownership To Insure Themselves? Evidence across US Cities," 2011 Meeting Papers 276, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  3. Paciorek, Andrew & Sinai, Todd, 2012. "Does home owning smooth the variability of future housing consumption?," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 71(2), pages 244-257.
  4. Daniel Cooper & María José Luengo-Prado, 2011. "House price growth when kids are teenagers: a path to higher intergenerational achievement?," Working Papers 11-6, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
  5. Almudena Sevilla Sanz & Annalisa Cristini, 2011. "Do House Prices Affect Consumption? A Comparison Exercise," Economics Series Working Papers 589, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.

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