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dc.contributor.authorHiggs, Helen
dc.contributor.authorWorthington, Andrew C.
dc.contributor.editorAkimov, Alexandr
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-16T07:59:50Z
dc.date.available2020-01-16T07:59:50Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.issn1836-8123
dc.identifier.otherRePEc:gri:fpaper:finance:201117
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/390416
dc.description.abstractThis paper models the price and income elasticity of retail finance in Australia using aggregate quarterly data and an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach. We particularly focus on the impact of the global financial crisis (GFC) from 2007 onwards on retail finance demand and analyse four submarkets (period analysed in brackets): owner-occupied housing loans (Sep-85-June-10), term loans (for motor vehicles, households goods and debt consolidation, etc.) (Dec-88-Jun-2010), credit card loans (Mar-90-Jun-10), and margin loans (Sep-00-Jun-10). Other than the indicator lending rates and annual full-time earnings respectively used as proxies for the price and income effects, we specify a large number of other variables as demand factors, particularly reflecting the value of the asset for which retail finance demand is derived. These variously include the yield on indexed bonds as a proxy for inflation expectations, median housing prices, consumer sentiment indexes as measures of consumer confidence, motor vehicle and retail trade sales, housing debt-to-housing assets as a measure of leverage, the proportion of protected margin lending, the available credit limit on credit cards, and the All Ordinaries Index. In the long run, we find significant price elasticities only for term loans and margin loans, and significant income elasticities of demand for housing loans, term loans and margin loans. We also find that the GFC has only significantly impacted upon the long-run demand for term loans and margin loans. In the short run, we find that the GFC has had a significant effect on the price elasticity of demand for term loans and margin loans, with only credit card loans exhibiting a significant price elasticity of demand otherwise. Expected inflation is also a key factor affecting retail finance demand. Overall, most of the submarkets in the analysis indicate that retail finance demand is price inelastic but more income elastic than conventionally thought.
dc.format.extent18 pages
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherGriffith University
dc.publisher.placeBrisbane, Australia
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto18
dc.subject.keywordsG00 - Financial Economics: General
dc.subject.keywordsC22 - Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models
dc.subject.keywordsD14 - Personal Finance
dc.subject.keywordsRetail finance demand
dc.subject.keywordsHousing loans
dc.subject.keywordsTerm loans
dc.subject.keywordsCredit card loans
dc.subject.keywordsMargin loans
dc.title2011-17: Price and income elasticity of Australian retail finance: An autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach (Working paper)
dc.typeReport
dc.type.descriptionDiscussion Paper
gro.facultyGriffith Business School
gro.description.notepublicFinance
gro.rights.copyrightCopyright © 2010 by author(s). No part of this paper may be reproduced in any form, or stored in a retrieval system, without prior permission of the author(s).
gro.date.issued2011
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gro.griffith.authorHiggs, Helen
gro.griffith.authorWorthington, Andrew C.


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