Optimal life cycle portfolio choice with housing market cycles
- During the last decades households in the U.S. have experienced that residential house prices move in a persistent manner, i.e. that returns are positively serially correlated. Since an owner-occupied home is usually the largest investment of a household it is important to understand how households act when they base their consumption and investment decisions on this experience. We show in a setting with housing market cycles and households who can decide whether they rent or own the home, that - besides the consumption and the precautionary savings motive - serial correlation in house prices generates a new speculative motive for homeownership. In particular, we show how good and bad housing market cycles affect homeownership rates, leverage, stock investments and consumption and can explain empirically observed household behavior during housing market boom and bust periods. Keywords: Asset Allocation , Portfolio Choice , Housing Market Cycles , Real Estate JEL Classification: G11, D91
Author: | Marcel Marekwica, Michael Z. Stamos |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-87097 |
Parent Title (German): | Center for Financial Studies (Frankfurt am Main): CFS working paper series ; No. 2010,21 |
Series (Serial Number): | CFS working paper series (2010, 21) |
Document Type: | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2010 |
Year of first Publication: | 2010 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2010/12/14 |
Tag: | Asset Allocation; Housing Market Cycles; Portfolio Choice; Real Estate |
GND Keyword: | USA; Haus; Preis |
Issue: | This version: November 2010 |
Page Number: | 47 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 230599893 |
Institutes: | Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Center for Financial Studies (CFS) |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |