Non-linear causality between the stock and real estate markets of Western European countries: Evidence from rank tests

Chi-Wei Su

Economic Modelling, 2011, vol. 28, issue 3, 845-851

Abstract: Using the non-parametric rank tests proposed by Breitung (2001), we set out in this study to determine whether any non-linear long-run equilibrium relationship exists between the stock and real estate markets of Western European countries. We go on to adopt the threshold error-correction model (TECM) to determine whether a similar relationship is discernible possibly non-linear functions of the log-price of these two markets. The findings clearly point to the existence of long-run unidirectional and bidirectional causality between the real estate market and the stock market in regions both above and below the threshold level. Finally, we find the existence of both wealth and credit price effects in the real estate markets and stock markets of Western European countries, which thereby offer financial institutions and individual investors in their construction of long-term investment portfolios within these two asset markets.

Keywords: Causality; Rank; test; Threshold; error-correction; model; (TECM); Wealth; effect; Credit; price; effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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