Housing prices and credit constraints in competitive search

Antonia Díaz and María Belén Jerez García-Vaquero
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Juan Pablo Rincón-Zapatero ()

UC3M Working papers. Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía

Abstract: We embed a competitive search model of the real estate market into a heterogeneous agentsetting where hoeholds face credit constraints and idiosyncratic turnover shocks. Householdscan accumulate a risk-free asset to build a down payment and to smooth non-housing consumption.There is an inelastic supply of identical homes. The model is "block recursive". Inequilibrium wealthier home buyers sort into submarkets with higher prices and shorter buyingtimes. We identify a novel amplification mechanism, arising from sorting, by which demandshocks can substantially affect housing prices. In particular, lowering down payment requirementsinduces entry of new buyers in the market and higher asset accumulation by currentsearchers, as these agents target more expensive (less congested) submarkets. This affects thedistribution of prices and trading probabilities, and thereby the wealth distribution. Our quantitativeresults suggest that the effects on the long-run level and dispersion of housing pricescan be significant.

Keywords: Housing; Prices; Credit; Constraints; Competitive; Search; Price; Dispersion; Inelastic; Housing; Supply; Wealth; Inequality; Sorting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D83 E21 R21 R30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-06-19
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