Real Estate Versus Financial Wealth in Consumption
Posted: 20 Jan 2004
Abstract
The consumption function for the U.S. economy is estimated with real estate and financial wealth for quarterly data for 1952:1-2001:4. An additional dollar of real estate wealth increases consumption by 8 cents in the current year, as compared with only 2 cents for financial wealth. The results are consistent with theoretical bounds on the marginal propensity to consume from aggregate wealth. The decline in the stock market during 2000-2001 had a limited impact on aggregate demand in part because of an offsetting real estate wealth effect.
Keywords: consumption and savings, marginal propensity to consume, financial assets, real estate assets
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Benjamin, John D. and Chinloy, Peter and Jud, G. Donald, Real Estate Versus Financial Wealth in Consumption. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=489645
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