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What drives urban consumption in mainland China? The role of property price dynamics
This paper adds to the literature on wealth effects on consumption by disentangling house price effects on consumption for mainland China. In a stochastic modelling framework, the riskiness, rate of increase and persistence of house price movements have different implications for the consumption/housing ratio. We exploit the geographical variation in property prices by using a quarterly city-level panel dataset for the pe-riod 1998Q1 2009Q4 and rely on a panel error correction model. Overall, the results suggest a significant long run impact of property prices on consumption. They also broadly confirm the predictions from the theo-retical model.
- ISBN
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978-952-462-708-5
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: BOFIT Discussion Papers ; No. 13/2011
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth
Housing Supply and Markets
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
Economywide Country Studies: Asia including Middle East
- Subject
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Consumption
house prices
China
panel data
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Chen, Yu-Fu
Funke, Michael
Mehrotra, Aaron
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Bank of Finland, Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT)
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Helsinki
- (when)
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2011
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Chen, Yu-Fu
- Funke, Michael
- Mehrotra, Aaron
- Bank of Finland, Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT)
Time of origin
- 2011