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| Title: | | A mechanism for booms and busts in housing prices  |
| Authors: | | Hillebrand, Marten Kikuchi, Tomoo |
| Issue Date: | | 2012 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working paper series in economics 40 |
| Abstract: | | We study an exchange economy with overlapping generations of consumers who derive utility from consuming a non-durable commodity and housing. A banking sector offers loans to finance housing. We provide a complete characterization of the equilibrium dynamics which alternates between an expansive regime where housing prices increase and banks expand loans and a contractive regime associated with decreasing housing values and shrinking credit volume. Regime switches occur even under small but persistent income changes giving rise to large and recurrent booms and busts in housing prices not reflecting changes in fundamentals. |
| Subjects: | | OLG Housing prices Credit volume Boom-bust scenarios Regime switching |
| JEL: | | C62 E32 G21 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Paper Series in Economics, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
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