House Prices and Household Consumption: The Case of the Czech Republic

Jan Bruha, Michal Hlaváček and Lubos Komarek ()

Working Papers from Czech National Bank, Research and Statistics Department

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate whether movements in property prices have detectable effects on Czech households' consumption and saving decisions. We concentrate on three episodes of movements in house and apartment prices and ask whether property owners have significantly different consumption and saving choices from households living in rented properties. We found that, on average, property owners tend to have a lower propensity to consume and a higher saving rate independently of whether property prices move up or down. This casts doubts on the strength of the collateral channel linking the housing market to the macroeconomy in the Czech Republic.

Keywords: Consumption and saving decisions; property prices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 D14 E21 R31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-mac, nep-tra and nep-ure
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