Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/43231 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
CFS Working Paper No. 2010/21
Publisher: 
Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Financial Studies (CFS), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
During the last decades households in the U.S. have experienced that residential house prices move in a persistent manner, i.e. that returns are positively serially correlated. Since an owner-occupied home is usually the largest investment of a household it is important to understand how households act when they base their consumption and investment decisions on this experience. We show in a setting with housing market cycles and households who can decide whether they rent or own the home, that - besides the consumption and the precautionary savings motive - serial correlation in house prices generates a new speculative motive for homeownership. In particular, we show how good and bad housing market cycles affect homeownership rates, leverage, stock investments and consumption and can explain empirically observed household behavior during housing market boom and bust periods.
Subjects: 
Asset Allocation
Portfolio Choice
Housing Market Cycles
Real Estate
JEL: 
G11
D91
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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