Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58244 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
KIT Working Paper Series in Economics No. 40
Publisher: 
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre (ECON), Karlsruhe
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
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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