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Journal of Corporate Finance Vol. 86 2024

Unveiling investors' substitution behavior: Stock trading decisions in response to housing market dynamics

Yiqing Lü1; Bin Zhao2; Ning Zhu3

1 New York University Shanghai · 2 Thammasat University · 3 Shanghai Advanced Research Institute

Abstract

Utilizing positive quasi-random shocks to local housing prices in Shanghai, we show that stock investors who experienced significant returns from the real estate market traded less actively, took less risk, and spent less effort trading. We confirm the effect of housing price changes on investors' trading behavior in a national sample. Our findings suggest a substitution effect between the real estate and stock market and highlight the importance of understanding investors' trading behavior in light of intertemporal variations in other asset market.

DOI
10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2024.102590
Volume
86
Pages
102590
Language
en
Sources
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