The standard textbook treatment of aggregate consumption holds that consumption depends on labor income and financial wealth. The marginal propensity to consume out of wealth is typically taken to be approximately 0.04-.0.05 per year. In this framewor...
The standard textbook treatment of aggregate consumption holds that consumption depends on labor income and financial wealth. The marginal propensity to consume out of wealth is typically taken to be approximately 0.04-.0.05 per year. In this framework, the wealth effect of a stock marker change should have an important stimulative effect on consumption.
Although this view neglects some potentially important factors that might also affect consumption directly many economic forecasters embrace the textbook view. For Example, a recent Wall Street research report explains that "as long as asset price are rising, the risk of a significant drop in consumer spending is small" and notes that the rising number of stock holders has "made real economic activity more tried to the performance of financial assets than ever before"
So this paper presents another evidence on the association between share price movements and consumption. In summarizes the changes in consumption that have typically followed substantial changes in stock market value, and presents several tests directed at solving the leading indicator and wealth effect views.
This paper documents the relationship between the stock market and consumption in Korea using of Johansen's cointegration analysis followed by vector error correction(VECM) and impulse response functions.
I find clear evidence that changes in real exchange rate affect growth in consumer spending, and particularly large growth in outlays on consumer durables.
I investigate the effect of stock returns on the share of consumption that is devoted to luxury goods, I do not find any pronounced effects of stock price fluctuations on the luxury goods consumption. This evidence cases doubt on the short-run importance of wealth effects associated with stock price movement.
In conclusion, I don't find any evidence the relationship between stock market fluctuations and consumption.