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Regulation and Frontier Housing Supply

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  • Dan Ben-Moshe

    (BGU)

  • David Genesove

    (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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Regulation is a major driver of housing supply, yet often not easily observed. Using only apartment prices and building heights, we estimate $\textit{frontier costs}$, defined as housing production costs absent regulation. Identification uses conditions on the support of supply and demand shocks without recourse to instrumental variables. In an application to Israeli residential construction, we find on average 43% of housing price ascribable to regulation, but with substantial dispersion, and with higher rates in areas that are higher priced, denser, and closer to city centers. We also find economies of scale in frontier costs at low building heights. This estimation takes into account measurement error, which includes random unobserved structural quality. When allowing structural quality to vary with amenities (locational quality), and assuming weak complementarity (the return in price on structural quality is nondecreasing in amenities) among buildings within 1km, we bound mean regulation from below by 19% of prices.
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  • Dan Ben-Moshe & David Genesove, 2023. "Regulation and Frontier Housing Supply," Working Papers 2302, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:bgu:wpaper:2302
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    Housing; regulation; stochastic frontier; real estate;
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