Risk and Return within the Single‐Family Housing Market
研究了独户住宅市场中风险与回报的权衡关系，发现尽管住房是消费与投资的联合决策且风险难以分散，但风险与回报的正相关关系仍然成立，为理论提供了实证支持。
The trade‐off between risk and return in equity markets is well established. This paper examines the existence of the same trade‐off in the single‐family housing market. That market is dominated by homeowners, who constitute about two‐thirds of U.S. households. For them the choice about how much housing and what house to buy is a joint consumption‐investment decision. Furthermore, owner‐occupied housing is by nature a lumpy investment whose risk cannot be completely diversified. Does this consumption‐investment link negate the risk‐return trade‐off within the single‐family housing market? Theory suggests the link still holds. This paper supplies empirical evidence in support of that theoretical result.