Direct and Indirect Effects of Housing Market Policies using an Augmented DiPasquale-Wheaton framework

This paper analyses a set of housing market policies in an augmented DiPasquale-Wheaton (ADPW) model where the price-rent (PR) ratio ensures housing market equilibrium across different types of tenure. The aim of the paper is educational, putting several housing market policies into a comprehensive...

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Main Authors: Trond-Arne Borgersen, Anne Wenche Emblem
Format: Article
Language:Norwegian
Published: Scandinavian University Press/Universitetsforlaget 2023-09-01
Series:Tidsskrift for boligforskning
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Online Access:https://www.idunn.no/doi/10.18261/tfb.6.1.2
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description This paper analyses a set of housing market policies in an augmented DiPasquale-Wheaton (ADPW) model where the price-rent (PR) ratio ensures housing market equilibrium across different types of tenure. The aim of the paper is educational, putting several housing market policies into a comprehensive context where the rental housing market, the housing construction industry and the market for owner-occupied housing are interrelated. Housing market dynamics takes both direct and indirect effects into account. The paper finds that introducing tax-deductible mortgage interest rates has a positive effect on house prices. This policy stimulates housing starts and pushes down rental prices. A property tax has a negative effect on house prices while lifting the rental price as the housing industry contracts. Social housing policy interventions on the supply side of the housing market partly crowd out commercial housing supply. Demand-side vouchers have stronger short-run effects as long-run effects incorporate the housing construction industry’s reaction to house price signals. Finally, rental subsidies create a gap between the rent paid by a tenant and the rent received by a landlord. The aggregate effect of a rental subsidy is related to the elasticities of supply and demand, where not only renters, but also homeowners and landlords, may benefit when supply and demand are very elastic.
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spelling doaj.art-6d96d7b328c24f19bc5427fc8e5fec122023-09-05T09:17:05ZnorScandinavian University Press/UniversitetsforlagetTidsskrift for boligforskning2535-59882023-09-016142910.18261/tfb.6.1.2Direct and Indirect Effects of Housing Market Policies using an Augmented DiPasquale-Wheaton frameworkTrond-Arne Borgersen0Anne Wenche Emblem1Department of Economics, Innovation and Society, Østfold University CollegeUiA School of Business and Law, University of AgderThis paper analyses a set of housing market policies in an augmented DiPasquale-Wheaton (ADPW) model where the price-rent (PR) ratio ensures housing market equilibrium across different types of tenure. The aim of the paper is educational, putting several housing market policies into a comprehensive context where the rental housing market, the housing construction industry and the market for owner-occupied housing are interrelated. Housing market dynamics takes both direct and indirect effects into account. The paper finds that introducing tax-deductible mortgage interest rates has a positive effect on house prices. This policy stimulates housing starts and pushes down rental prices. A property tax has a negative effect on house prices while lifting the rental price as the housing industry contracts. Social housing policy interventions on the supply side of the housing market partly crowd out commercial housing supply. Demand-side vouchers have stronger short-run effects as long-run effects incorporate the housing construction industry’s reaction to house price signals. Finally, rental subsidies create a gap between the rent paid by a tenant and the rent received by a landlord. The aggregate effect of a rental subsidy is related to the elasticities of supply and demand, where not only renters, but also homeowners and landlords, may benefit when supply and demand are very elastic.https://www.idunn.no/doi/10.18261/tfb.6.1.2Housing market policyDiPasquale-Wheaton modelPR-ratiocrowding out
spellingShingle Trond-Arne Borgersen
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Direct and Indirect Effects of Housing Market Policies using an Augmented DiPasquale-Wheaton framework
Tidsskrift for boligforskning
Housing market policy
DiPasquale-Wheaton model
PR-ratio
crowding out
title Direct and Indirect Effects of Housing Market Policies using an Augmented DiPasquale-Wheaton framework
title_full Direct and Indirect Effects of Housing Market Policies using an Augmented DiPasquale-Wheaton framework
title_fullStr Direct and Indirect Effects of Housing Market Policies using an Augmented DiPasquale-Wheaton framework
title_full_unstemmed Direct and Indirect Effects of Housing Market Policies using an Augmented DiPasquale-Wheaton framework
title_short Direct and Indirect Effects of Housing Market Policies using an Augmented DiPasquale-Wheaton framework
title_sort direct and indirect effects of housing market policies using an augmented dipasquale wheaton framework
topic Housing market policy
DiPasquale-Wheaton model
PR-ratio
crowding out
url https://www.idunn.no/doi/10.18261/tfb.6.1.2
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