Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/277196 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Citation: 
[Journal:] Intervention. European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies [ISSN:] 2195-3376 [Volume:] 07 [Issue:] 2 [Year:] 2010 [Pages:] 361-375
Publisher: 
Metropolis-Verlag, Marburg
Abstract: 
We show that the Kaldor (1940) trade cycle mechanism can be meaningfully applied to the market for residential housing space, since the demand for houses may be positively related to the housing price in a mid-range price domain, while it is downward sloping for house prices sufficiently small as well as sufficiently large. Confronted with the current supply of houses this gives rise to multiple equilibria. Then the employed nonlinear house demand schedule is coupled with backward-looking house price expectations and a planar dynamics is obtained with the same range of model-consistent expectations equilibria as in the partial situation studied beforehand. The model however is not dependent on the backward oriented expectation scheme, but also applies to the case of myopic perfect foresight. The nonlinear demand function for houses in connection with changes in the housing stock initiates sudden reversals from booms into busts and vice versa, which from a mathematical point of view give locally rise to fold catastrophes at the bifurcation points, with the dynamics being described by relaxation oscillations from the global perspective.
Subjects: 
Kaldorian trade cycles
boom-bust cycles
housing markets
relaxation oscillations
JEL: 
E12
E32
R21
R31
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Document Type: 
Article

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