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What drives returns to euro area housing? Evidence from a dynamic dividend-discount model

We apply a dynamic dividend-discount model to analyse unexpected housing returns in a panel of eight euro area countries which together comprise 90% of euro area GDP. The application of this model allows for a de-composition of house price movements into movements in rent (cash-flow) and expected return news components. The empirical application of the model involves the estimation of a panel vector autoregressive model (VAR) for four variables –excess return to housing, rents, the real interest rate and real disposable per capita income– using quarterly data over the period 1985-2007. This empirical investigation yields two main findings. First, the bulk of the variability of house price move-ments in the panel of countries analysed can be attributed to movements in the rental yield. Indeed, perturbations to rents appear to result in a one-to-one analogous movement in house prices over the long term once controlling for changes in expected returns. Second, evidence from the dynamic profile of shocks along with the negative co-movement between changing rental yield expectations and changing expected returns on housing assets would suggest that euro area house prices overreact to news.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: ECB Working Paper ; No. 1019

Classification
Wirtschaft
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Housing Demand
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
Subject
cash flow news
house price
housing rental yield
panel VAR estimation
return decomposition
Immobilienpreis
Spillover-Effekt
VAR-Modell
Eurozone

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Hiebert, Paul
Sydow, Matthias
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
European Central Bank (ECB)
(where)
Frankfurt a. M.
(when)
2009

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Hiebert, Paul
  • Sydow, Matthias
  • European Central Bank (ECB)

Time of origin

  • 2009

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