Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/83450 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IES Working Paper No. 22/2012
Publisher: 
Charles University in Prague, Institute of Economic Studies (IES), Prague
Abstract: 
This paper studies how the change of wealth of households represented by housing prices and stock market prices influences households' consumption. We provide empirical analysis based on the Czech aggregate data from 1998-2009. We analyse the effect of change in households' wealth on the consumption of both durable and non-durable goods employing the VAR and VEC models on quarterly data. The robustness of results is verified by Dynamic OLS and Fully Modified OLS framework. We find a positive effect of both housing wealth and stock market wealth on both types of consumption. In case of non-durable goods consumption, we estimate the cointegrating vector and conclude that the elasticity of non-durable goods consumption with respect to housing wealth is over three times greater than with respect to stock market wealth.
Subjects: 
households
housing prices
consumption
housing wealth
stock market wealth
VAR model
VECM
JEL: 
C22
E39
G12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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