Stabilising House Prices: The Role of Housing Futures Trading
| Autor: | Arzu Uluc |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Consumption (economics)
Economics and Econometrics Financial economics media_common.quotation_subject Financial instrument 05 social sciences Baseline model Monetary economics Urban Studies Investment decisions Accounting 0502 economics and business Noise trader Economics Asset (economics) 050207 economics Distortion (economics) Volatility (finance) Speculation Welfare Futures contract Finance 050205 econometrics media_common |
| Zdroj: | SSRN Electronic Journal. |
| ISSN: | 1556-5068 |
| DOI: | 10.2139/ssrn.2674116 |
| Popis: | This study investigates the effects of housing futures trading on housing demand, house price volatility and housing bubbles in a theoretical framework. The baseline model is an application of the De Long, Shleifer, Summers and Waldmann (1990) model of noise traders to the housing market, when the risky asset is housing. This adds new features to the model as households receive utility from housing services and cannot short-sell houses. The existence of noise traders in the housing market creates uncertainty about house prices, causes prices to deviate away from their fundamental values, and leads to a distortion in housing consumption. To investigate the impact of housing derivatives trading on the housing market, a new financial instrument, housing futures, is introduced into the baseline model. Housing futures trading affects house price stability through three channels: by (i) enabling households to disentangle their housing consumption decisions from investment decisions; (ii) allowing short-selling; and (iii) attracting an additional set of traders (pure speculators) looking for portfolio diversification opportunities. The results show that, for a large set of admissible parameter values, housing futures trading decreases the volatility of house prices and increases the welfare of households and investors when noise trader (sophisticated) households are always relatively optimistic (pessimistic), and the share of pure speculators that are sophisticated is higher than the share of households that are sophisticated. |
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