Arbeitspapier

Matching models and housing markets: the role of the zero-profit condition

The recent and growing literature which has extended the use of search and matching models even to the housing market does not use the free entry or zero-profit assumption as a key condition for solving the equilibrium of the model. This is because a straightforward adaptation of the basic matching model to the housing market seems impossible. However, this paper shows that the zero-profit condition can be easily reformulated to take the distinctive features of the housing market into account. Indeed, it helps to provide a theoretical explanation for well-known empirical regularities in the housing markets.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: EERI Research Paper Series ; No. 22/2012

Classification
Wirtschaft

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Lisi, Gaetano
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI)
(where)
Brussels
(when)
2012

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Lisi, Gaetano
  • Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI)

Time of origin

  • 2012

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