Wealth effects on the housing markets: Do market liquidity and market states matter?
Jhih-Hong Zeng,
Chi-Lu Peng,
Ming-Chi Chen and
Chien-Chiang Lee ()
Economic Modelling, 2013, vol. 32, issue C, 488-495
Abstract:
This paper analyzes the effect of household wealth (including housing and financial wealth) on housing sales and probes their long-run and short-run dynamic relationships. We further examine the short-run effect of financial wealth on housing sales by employing quantile regressions, restricted upon different liquidity (quantile) levels and up-down housing markets, from which the differences between the early and late stages of an uptrend/downtrend can be respectively exhibited. We find that housing wealth, income, and mortgage rates have long-run influences on housing sales. Looking at the short run, we find that housing sales only respond to housing wealth and mortgage rates. When we distinguish the effects of financial wealth on housing sales in up-down housing markets, we note a positive influence of financial wealth on housing sales in down markets, but not in up markets. Particularly, our results show an impact of housing liquidity on the short-run relationships.
Keywords: Wealth effect; Housing sales; Housing trading volume; Liquidity; Quantile regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 R30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2013.02.021
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