House Prices and Aggregate Consumption: Do they Move Together? Evidence from Singapore

Using data from Singapore, we find no evidence that house price increases have produced either wealth or collateral enhancement effects on aggregate consumption. We confirm the presence of liquidity constraints from the asymmetric reaction of consumption to income increases vis-a-vis income declines...

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Main Author: PHANG, Sock Yong
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhe.2004.04.003
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soe_research-14472016-05-19T05:47:11Z House Prices and Aggregate Consumption: Do they Move Together? Evidence from Singapore PHANG, Sock Yong Using data from Singapore, we find no evidence that house price increases have produced either wealth or collateral enhancement effects on aggregate consumption. We confirm the presence of liquidity constraints from the asymmetric reaction of consumption to income increases vis-a-vis income declines. When we allow for asymmetric response, anticipated house price increases do not have a positive effect on aggregate consumption: we find that they are considerably more likely to have a modest dampening effect, although this negative result is not statistically significant from zero. Declines in expected house price growth have a larger and marginally significant negative effect on consumption. We conclude that the results of recent studies of OECD countries, which find changes in housing wealth to be positively associated with changes in aggregate consumption, cannot be generalized to the Singapore case. 2004-06-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/448 info:doi/10.1016/j.jhe.2004.04.003 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhe.2004.04.003 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School Of Economics eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University housing prices consumption life-cycle/permanent income hypotheses Singapore Asian Studies Public Economics Real Estate
institution Singapore Management University
building SMU Libraries
continent Asia
country Singapore
Singapore
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topic housing prices
consumption
life-cycle/permanent income hypotheses
Singapore
Asian Studies
Public Economics
Real Estate
spellingShingle housing prices
consumption
life-cycle/permanent income hypotheses
Singapore
Asian Studies
Public Economics
Real Estate
PHANG, Sock Yong
House Prices and Aggregate Consumption: Do they Move Together? Evidence from Singapore
description Using data from Singapore, we find no evidence that house price increases have produced either wealth or collateral enhancement effects on aggregate consumption. We confirm the presence of liquidity constraints from the asymmetric reaction of consumption to income increases vis-a-vis income declines. When we allow for asymmetric response, anticipated house price increases do not have a positive effect on aggregate consumption: we find that they are considerably more likely to have a modest dampening effect, although this negative result is not statistically significant from zero. Declines in expected house price growth have a larger and marginally significant negative effect on consumption. We conclude that the results of recent studies of OECD countries, which find changes in housing wealth to be positively associated with changes in aggregate consumption, cannot be generalized to the Singapore case.
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author PHANG, Sock Yong
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title House Prices and Aggregate Consumption: Do they Move Together? Evidence from Singapore
title_short House Prices and Aggregate Consumption: Do they Move Together? Evidence from Singapore
title_full House Prices and Aggregate Consumption: Do they Move Together? Evidence from Singapore
title_fullStr House Prices and Aggregate Consumption: Do they Move Together? Evidence from Singapore
title_full_unstemmed House Prices and Aggregate Consumption: Do they Move Together? Evidence from Singapore
title_sort house prices and aggregate consumption: do they move together? evidence from singapore
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2004
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/448
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhe.2004.04.003
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