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A Model of Regulation in the Housing Market

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  • Pascal RAESS
  • Thomas VON UNGERN-STERNBERG

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This paper develops a theoretical model to study the effects of regulation on the housing market. Our model emphasises the following specific features of the housing market : product heterogeneity plays an important role, search costs are high, switching (moving) costs are substantial, and the possibilities to price discriminate are important. We show that in an unregulated housing market rents will increase at the time of renegotiation as a result of the "hold-up" problem. A regulation which limits the owners' possibilities to increase his rents for a certain number of years leads to lower equilibrium rents and higher social welfare. Our model strongly suggests that a policy which consists of indexing rents may be socially preferable to a simple laissez-faire solution.

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  • Pascal RAESS & Thomas VON UNGERN-STERNBERG, 1999. "A Model of Regulation in the Housing Market," Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'économie 9903, Université de Lausanne, Faculté des HEC, Département d’économie.
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    1. Raess, Pascal & von Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas, 2002. "A model of regulation in the rental housing market," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 32(4), pages 475-500, July.

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    Keywords

    housing; monopolistic competition; regulation; search; hold-up;
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    JEL classification:

    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
    • L59 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Other

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