Housing, Wealth Composition and Expected Stock Return

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Daxuan Zhao

School of Business, Renmin University of China

Tien Foo Sing

National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Real Estate

Date Written: March 7, 2012

Abstract

This paper considers a consumption-based asset pricing model where housing is explicitly modeled both as an asset and consumption good. As consumption good, housing introduces housing expenditure share as a novel risk factor. As an asset, it is the major component of wealth with financial asset. The fluctuation of aggregate housing-financial wealth ratio, as a consequence of irrational housing market, impacts the budget constraints of households. It increases household's exposure to risk and shifts the conditional distribution of consumption growth. Using aggregate data for the United States, we find that the fluctuation of housing-financial wealth ratio is a strong predictor for expected stock return. Conditional on this factor, the covariances of returns with aggregate risk factors explain high ratio of the cross-sectional variation in annual size and book-to-market portfolio returns. The micro mechanism of this asset pricing model is also supported by the micro data from subprime crisis.

Keywords: Housing wealth, Consumption-based asset pricing, Expected stock return, Wealth composition

JEL Classification: G0, G12, R21

Suggested Citation

Zhao, Daxuan and Sing, Tien Foo, Housing, Wealth Composition and Expected Stock Return (March 7, 2012). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1843125 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1843125

Daxuan Zhao (Contact Author)

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Tien Foo Sing

National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Real Estate ( email )

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Singapore 117566
Singapore

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