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Housing prices and credit constraints in competitive search

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  • Díaz Rodríguez, Antonia
  • Jerez, Belén
  • Rincón-Zapatero, Juan Pablo

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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.

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  • Díaz Rodríguez, Antonia & Jerez, Belén & Rincón-Zapatero, Juan Pablo, 2020. "Housing prices and credit constraints in competitive search," UC3M Working papers. Economics 30623, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía.
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    1. Jerez, Belén, 2023. "Competitive search with two-sided risk aversion," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 157(C).
    2. Low, Hamish & Sánchez-Marcos, Virginia, 2024. "Labour supply and the cost of house price booms and busts," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 90(C).
    3. Aaron Hedlund & Kieran Larkin & Kurt Mitman & Serdar Ozkan, 2025. "Mortgage Market Structure and the Transmission of Monetary Policy During the Great Inflation," Working Papers 2025-016, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

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    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
    • E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
    • R21 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Housing Demand
    • R30 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location - - - General

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