A dynamic model of housing demand
Subtitle: estimation and policy implications
By: Patrick Bajari ... [et al.].
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15955; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15955.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Description: "Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) we specify, estimate and simulate a dynamic structural model of housing demand.  Our model generalizes previous applied econometric work by incorporating realistic features of the housing market including non-convex adjustment costs from buying and selling a home, credit constraints from minimum downpayment requirements and uncertainty about the evolution of incomes and home prices.  We argue that these features are critical for capturing salient features of housing demand observed in the PSID.  After estimating the model we use it to simulate how consumer behavior responds to house price and income declines as well as tightening credit.  These experiments are motivated by the U.S.  recession starting in December of 2007 that saw large falls in home prices, large negative income shocks for many households and tightening credit standards.  In the short run, relatively few households adjust their housing stock.  Households respond instead by reducing non-housing consumption and reducing wealth because they wish to avoid losing their home and the associated adjustment costs.  Households that adjust in the short run are those hit with a series of bad shocks, such as a negative income shock and a home price decline.  A larger proportion of households do adjust their consumption in the long run, increasing their housing stock since housing is less expensive.  However, such changes may occur several years after the shocks listed above"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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