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Wie stark wird der Konsum vom Vermögen bestimmt?

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  • Christian Dreger
  • Jiri Slacalek

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The economic performance in the euro area and in particular in Germany has been rather weak over the recent past. Despite the cyclical upturn of the world economy domestic demand and private consumption have grown only modestly. The path of private consumption depends on the evolution of financial and housing wealth, where the impact of the latter seems to have risen over the last years. In the aggregate, a wealth increase of 1 euro is expected to trigger private consumption by about 2 cents. However, the impact of wealth is lower in bank than in market based economies. In fact, housing prices do not have any impact on the path of private consumption in bank dominated systems. Therefore, the weak economic performance in Germany could not be explained by the stagnation in housing prices. Im Euroraum und insbesondere in Deutschland hat sich die Konjunktur lange Zeit nur schwach entwickelt. Ein wesentlicher Grund dafür war nur eine verhaltene Dynamik der Binnennachfrage und insbesondere des Konsums. Im Durchschnitt unterschiedlicher Länder ist ein deutlicher Einfluss der Vermögensmärkte auf die Konsumausgaben nachweisbar. Dabei hat die Bedeutung des Immobilienbesitzes als Vermögenskomponente in den letzten Jahren zugenommen. Pro Euro Vermögenszuwachs werden ungefähr 2 Cent für zusätzlichen Konsum verwendet. Der Vermögenseinfluss ist in Deutschland im Vergleich zu Ländern mit stärker kapitalmarktbasierten Finanzsystemen schwächer ausgeprägt. Bei den Immobilienpreisen ist überhaupt kein Einfluss erkennbar. Dementsprechend lässt sich die Entwicklung in Deutschland auch nicht durch die hierzulande stagnierenden Immobilienpreise erklären.

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  • Christian Dreger & Jiri Slacalek, 2007. "Wie stark wird der Konsum vom Vermögen bestimmt?," Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, vol. 76(4), pages 77-84.
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    DOI: 10.3790/vjh.76.4.77
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    Keywords

    Housing prices; wealth effect; consumption dynamics;
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    • E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • C22 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes

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