Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/210903 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 1262
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
We exploit a quasi-experiment to provide new evidence on the magnitude of the housing wealth effect. We estimate an immediate shock of approximately -15% to house prices close to one of Stockholm's airports after its operations were unexpectedly continued as a result of political bargaining. This source of price variation is ideal to identify housing wealth effects since it is local and unrelated to variation in macroeconomic conditions. Using a household data set with granular geographic information on location of primary residence, we find an elasticity of 0.45 among purchasers of new cars. Converting our estimate to an aggregate MPC on cars, it is however only 0.13 cents per dollar. The MPC is entirely concentrated to homeowners with a combined loan-to-value ratio between 0.6 and 0.8 which, on the one hand, confirms the key role of household balance sheets but on the other hand refutes a monotone relationship between response and household leverage
Subjects: 
House prices
Housing wealth
Consumption
House price elasticity
Marginal propensity to consume
Collateral effect
JEL: 
D12
E21
E32
E44
E60
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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