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Land Bubble and Pareto Efficiency

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  • Alexis Akira Toda

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Since McCallum (1987), the presence of a productive non-reproducible asset ("land") has been thought to rule out inefficiency in overlapping generations (OLG) models, though theoretical controversies remain. This paper proves that if the natural interest rate (the counterfactual interest rate without land) is lower than the land rent growth rate and the elasticity of substitution between land and non-land factors in the production function exceeds 1, a land bubble necessarily emerges, which makes the economy efficient. We also present an example of an inefficient equilibrium when the natural interest rate is higher than the rent growth rate.

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  • Alexis Akira Toda, 2025. "Land Bubble and Pareto Efficiency," Papers 2508.16002, arXiv.org.
    • Handle: RePEc:arx:papers:2508.16002
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