Download or read book Search and matching in the housing market written by David Genesove and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Random matching and Search Model of a Rental Housing Market written by Masahiro Igarashi and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Buying First Or Selling First in Housing Markets written by Espen R. Moen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Housing transactions by owner-occupiers take two steps, purchase of a new property and sale of the old housing unit. This paper shows how the transaction sequence decision of owner-occupiers depends on, and in turn, affects housing market conditions in an equilibrium search-and-matching model of the housing market. We show that home-owners prefer to buy first whenever there are more buyers than sellers in the market. This behavior leads to multiple steady state equilibria and to self-fulfilling fluctuations in prices and time-on-market. Equilibrium switches creates large fluctuations in the housing market, which are broadly consistent with stylized facts on the housing cycle.
Download or read book Labor Credit and Goods Markets written by Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An integrated framework to study the theoretical and quantitative properties of economies with frictions in labor, financial, and goods markets. This book offers an integrated framework to study the theoretical and quantitative properties of economies with frictions in multiple markets. Building on analyses of markets with frictions by 2010 Nobel laureates Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen, and Christopher A. Pissarides, which provided a new theoretical approach to search markets, the book applies this new paradigm to labor, finance, and goods markets. It shows, in particular, how frictions in different markets interact with each other. The book first covers the main developments in the analysis of the labor market in the presence of frictions, offering a systematic analysis of the dynamics of this environment and explaining the notion of macroeconomic volatility. Then, building on the generality and simplicity of the search analysis, the book adapts it to other markets, developing the tools and concepts to analyze friction in these markets. The book goes beyond the traditional general equilibrium analysis of markets, which is often frictionless. It begins with the standard analysis of a single market, and then sequentially integrates more markets into the analysis, progressing from labor to financial to goods markets. Along the way, the book provides a number of useful results and insights, including the existence of a direct link between search frictions and the degree of volatility in the economy.
Download or read book Online and Matching Based Market Design written by Federico Echenique and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by more than fifty top researchers, this text comprehensively covers a major inter-disciplinary field and its important applications.
Download or read book Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics vol 5B written by Gilles Duranton and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 967 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developments in methodologies, agglomeration, and a range of applied issues have characterized recent advances in regional and urban studies. Volume 5 concentrates on these developments while treating traditional subjects such as housing, the costs and benefits of cities, and policy issues beyond regional inequalities. Contributors make a habit of combining theory and empirics in each chapter, guiding research amid a trend in applied economics towards structural and quasi-experimental approaches. Clearly distinguished from the New Economic Geography covered by Volume 4, these articles feature an international approach that positions recent advances within the discipline of economics and society at large. Editors are recognized as leaders and can attract an international list of contributors Regional and urban studies interest economists in many subdisciplines, such as labor, development, and public economics Table of contents combines theoretical and applied subjects, ensuring broad appeal to readers
Download or read book The Microstructure of Housing Markets written by Alina Arefeva and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation studies the implications of search frictions and pricing mechanisms for house prices. Many economists believe that US house prices fluctuate over time between booms and busts, and are volatile relative to fundamentals, such as rents or income in a local housing market. This excess volatility is a puzzle relative to conventional models of house prices in the literature. My dissertation aims to explain this puzzle. To explain the high volatility of house prices I substitute hypothesis of the Nash bargaining price determination, prevailing in the literature, with the auction price determination. With Nash bargaining a seller bargains with a buyer one-to-one. In practice, especially so in booms, a seller deals with multiple buyers simultaneously and sells to the highest bidder. A natural way to model this is to use an auction model. When house prices are determined in an auction instead of Nash bargaining, house prices fluctuate more, which helps explain the volatility of house prices and fluctuations between booms and busts. The dissertation consists of two related essays on the microstructure of the housing markets. The first essay explores the consequences of the pricing mechanisms for the quantitative behavior of the house prices over time in an equilibrium search model of a local housing market. The second essay asks whether the equilibrium allocations of these search models are constrained efficient. The first essay shows that the type of the pricing mechanism crucially affects the volatility of the house prices in response to the shocks to a local housing market. Specifically, if the house prices are determined in auctions rather than by one-to-one negotiation a la Nash bargaining, then the house prices are four to fifteen time more volatile if shocks to the housing market affect the participation of buyers, for example, shock to the inflow of buyers or rents. If the shocks affect the discount factor or the expectation of the housing services, then it is the opposite, that is the house prices are more volatile in the Nash bargaining model than in the auction model. Many economists agree that the housing boom-bust episode 2000-2007 was fueled by the inflow of the buyers due to the decrease in the mortgage lending standards. For these types of shocks, the auction model produces highly volatile house price growth, high enough to match the observed volatility in the local housing markets in the US. The intuition for higher volatility in the auctions as compared to the Nash bargaining comes from the differences in the outside options of the seller in the two models. The seller in the Nash bargaining model negotiates with only one buyer per period, while the seller in the auction model can meet several buyers at the same time. Thus, in the auction model the outside option of the seller is to wait till tomorrow to potentially meet several buyers, while in the Nash bargaining model the seller can enjoy a company of only one buyer. In the hot market there are many interested buyers on the market which is capitalized in the option value to sell. Because of the sensitivity of the option value to sell to the current state of the market, the house prices fluctuate more. The second essay asks whether the dynamic equilibrium model of the random search with auctions, proposed in the first essay, produces a socially efficient allocation, constrained by search frictions. The main result is that the equilibrium random search model with an auction produces an inefficient allocation. The inefficiency in the random search model comes from the monopoly power of the seller in the auction model. Buyers are visiting sellers without observing the ex-post terms of trade, and, after the meeting has occurred, the seller becomes a local monopolist, because the buyer has to incur search and waiting costs to meet another seller. The distortion can be corrected by allowing the sellers to advertise and commit to the trading mechanisms by posting the reservation price for the auction and commit to this price. Having observed these prices, the buyers then direct their search to the seller with the most attractive terms or with least competition. This alleviates the externality present in the random search model. The paper extends this result from the static setting, analyzed in the literature, to the dynamic setting.
Download or read book Can Tightness in the Housing Market Help Predict Subsequent Home Price Appreciation Evidence from the U S and the Netherlands written by Paul E. Carrillo and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper assesses the predictive power of variables that measure market tightness, such as seller's bargaining power and sale probabilities, on future home prices. Theoretical insights from a stylized search-and-matching model illustrate that such indicators can be associated with subsequent home price appreciation. The empirical analysis employs listings data on residential units offered for sale through a real estate broker in the Netherlands and for certain U.S. regions. Individual records are used to construct quarterly home price indices, an index that measures seller's bargaining power, and (quality adjusted) home sale probabilities. Using conventional time-series models we show that current sale probabilities and bargaining power can significantly reduce home price appreciation forecast errors and help to predict turning points in local area housing markets. The measures and approaches in this paper help to demonstrate ways in which researchers and practitioners can leverage listings data to gain knowledge about the current and future state of the housing market.
Download or read book Modelling Housing Market Search written by William A. V. Clark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1982, this book contains research in the area of econometric modelling in the housing market, including that which has extended to the use of search models. The subjects covered include the importance of racial differences, spatial aspects of residential search and information provision and its effect on the behaviour of the buyers. The combination of careful analytic modelling, empirical testing and speculative discussions of the role of agents in the search process provides an innovative and imaginative approach to the interesting problems of understanding the individual behaviour in complex contexts such as the urban housing market.
Download or read book Housing And Commuting The Theory Of Urban Residential Structure A Textbook In Urban Economics written by John Yinger and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 1057 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of urban economics is built on an analysis of housing prices, land rents, housing consumption, spatial form, and other aspects of urban residential structure. Drawing on the journal publications and teaching notes of Professor John Yinger of Syracuse University, Housing and Commuting: The Theory of Urban Residential Structure presents a simple model of urban residential structure and shows how the model's results change when key assumptions are made more realistic. This book provides a wide-ranging introduction to research on urban residential structure. Topics covered range from theoretical analysis of urban structure with different transportation systems or multiple worksites to empirical work on the impact of local public services on house values and the impact of racial prejudice and discrimination on housing choices. Graduate students and scholars who want to learn about research in urban economics will find this book to be a good starting point.
Download or read book Hedonic Methods in Housing Markets written by Andrea Baranzini and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-09-20 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities are growing worldwide and their sprawl is increasingly challenged for its pressure on open spaces and environmental quality. Economic arguments can help to decide about the trade-off between preserving environmental quality and developing housing and business surfaces, provided the benefits of environmental quality are adequately quantified. To this end, this book focuses on the use and advancement of the “hedonic approach”, an economic valuation technique that analyses and quantifies the sources of rent and property price differentials. Starting from theoretical foundations, the hedonic approach is applied to the valuation of natural land use preservation and noise abatement measures, as well as to residential segregation and discrimination, extending the analysis to the role of the buyers and sellers' identity on housing market prices and to the issue of environmental justice.
Download or read book Search Benefit in Housing Markets written by Xin He and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of the relationship between a property's selling price and its marketing time in the housing market remains an open question to date, despite almost 40 years of inquiry and hundreds of regressions conducted on various data sources. This study attempts to settle the long-standing open question by examining the issue from a new perspective. We demonstrate that the true price-TOM relationship should be nonlinear and characterized by an inverted U-shaped curve wherein the selling price increases with TOM up to a certain threshold, reflective of a positive exposure effect and decreases thereafter to reflect a negative stigma effect. This relationship is borne out in an empirical analysis using a large sample of home sales from the Hampton Roads, Virginia metropolitan area during an extended period of time. We then formulate hypotheses about the benefit of search by home sellers, which are subsequently confirmed by the empirical findings.
Download or read book Segmented Housing Search written by Monika Piazzesi and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper studies housing markets with multiple segments searched by heterogeneous clienteles. We document market and search activity for the San Francisco Bay Area. Variation within narrow geographic areas is large and differs significantly from variation across those areas. In particular, search activity and inventory covary positively within cities and zip codes, but negatively across those units. A quantitative search model shows how the interaction of broad and narrow searchers drives housing market activity at different levels of aggregation and shapes the response to shocks as well as price discounts due to market frictions.
Download or read book Housing Economics written by Duncan Maclennan and published by . This book was released on with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics written by Gilles Duranton and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 1686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developments in methodologies, agglomeration, and a range of applied issues have characterized recent advances in regional and urban studies. Volume 5 concentrates on these developments while treating traditional subjects such as housing, the costs and benefits of cities, and policy issues beyond regional inequalities. Contributors make a habit of combining theory and empirics in each chapter, guiding research amid a trend in applied economics towards structural and quasi-experimental approaches. Clearly distinguished from the New Economic Geography covered by Volume 4, these articles feature an international approach that positions recent advances within the discipline of economics and society at large. - Emphasizes advances in applied econometrics and the blurring of "within" and "between" cities - Promotes the integration of theory and empirics in most chapters - Presents new research on housing, especially in macro and international finance contexts
Download or read book Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed written by Steven D. Levitt and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Agents are often better informed than the clients who hire them and may exploit this informational advantage. Real-estate agents, who know much more about the housing market than the typical homeowner, are one example. Because real estate agents receive only a small share of the incremental profit when a house sells for a higher value, there is an incentive for them to convince their clients to sell their houses too cheaply and too quickly. We test these predictions by comparing home sales in which real estate agents are hired by others to sell a home to instances in which a real estate agent sells his or her own home. In the former case, the agent has distorted incentives; in the latter case, the agent wants to pursue the first-best. Consistent with the theory, we find homes owned by real estate agents sell for about 3.7 percent more than other houses and stay on the market about 9.5 days longer, even after controlling for a wide range of housing characteristics. Situations in which the agent's informational advantage is larger lead to even greater distortions"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Download or read book The Housing Boom and Bust written by Thomas Sowell and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how we got into the current economic disaster that developed out of the economics and politics of the housing boom and bust. The "creative" financing of home mortgages and "creative" marketing of financial securities based on these mortgages to countries around the world, are part of the story of how a financial house of cards was built up--and then collapsed.
