| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w9462 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 9462 |
| Owner-Occupied Housing as a Hedge Against Rent Risk | |
| Todd Sinai; Nicholas S. Souleles | |
| 发表日期 | 2003-01-27 |
| 出版年 | 2003 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Many people assume that the most significant risk in the housing market is that homeowners are exposed to fluctuations in house values. However, homeownership also provides a hedge against fluctuations in future rent payments. This paper finds that, even though house price risk endogenously increases with rent risk, the latter empirically dominates for most households so housing market risk actually increases homeownership rates and house prices. Further, the net effect of rent risk on the demand for homeownership increases with a household's expected length of stay in its home, as the cumulative rent volatility rises and the discounted house price risk falls. Using CPS data, the difference in the probability of homeownership between households with long and short expected lengths of stay is 2.9 to 5.4 percentage points greater in high rent variance places than low rent variance places. The sensitivity to rent risk is greatest for households that devote a larger share of their budgets to housing, and thus face a bigger gamble. Similarly, the elderly who live in high rent variance places are more likely to own their own homes, and their probability of homeownership falls faster with age (as their horizon shortens). This aversion to rent risk might help explain why older households do not consume much of their housing wealth. Finally, we find that house prices capitalize not only expected future rents, but also the associated rent risk premia. At the MSA level, a one standard deviation increase in rent variance increases the house price-to-rent ratio by 2 to 4 percent. |
| 主题 | Regional and Urban Economics ; Macroeconomics ; Consumption and Investment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w9462 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/567081 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Todd Sinai,Nicholas S. Souleles. Owner-Occupied Housing as a Hedge Against Rent Risk. 2003. |
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