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Measuring expectations from household survey: New results on subjective probabilities of future house prices
I analyze new data on subjective probabilistic expectations on house prices collected in the Spanish Survey of Household Finances. Households are asked to distribute ten points among five different scenarios for the change in the price of their homes over the next 12 months. This paper is the first empirical study to document the beliefs of a representative sample of households about the future value of their homes. It also reviews the methodology of expectation measurement and recent work on household subjective probabilities. I model individual subjective probability densities using splines, construct quantiles from those densities, and analyze how the heterogeneity in the individual distributions relates to differences in housing and household characteristics. An important result of the paper is that women are more optimistic about the evolution of house prices than men. Location at the postal code level accounts for a large fraction of the variation in the subjective distributions across households. Finally, I provide some results on how subjective expectations matter for predicting spending behavior. Housing investment and car purchases are negatively associated with pessimistic expectations about future house price changes and with uncertainty about those expectations.
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Englisch
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Journal: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association ; ISSN: 1869-4195 ; Volume: 6 ; Year: 2015 ; Issue: 4 ; Pages: 361-405 ; Heidelberg: Springer
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access
Expectations; Speculations
Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
Household Saving; Personal Finance
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Housing Demand
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Household subjective probabilistic expectations
House price expectations
Gender bias
Consumption
Portfolio decisions
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bover, Olympia
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Veröffentlichung
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Springer
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Heidelberg
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2015
- DOI
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doi:10.1007/s13209-015-0136-z
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- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Beteiligte
- Bover, Olympia
- Springer
Entstanden
- 2015
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