Housing Market Bubbles and Business Cycles in an Agent-Based Credit Economy

Abstract: This paper investigates the housing and mortgage markets by means of an agent-based macroeconomic model of a credit network economy. A set of computational experiments have been carried out in order to explore the effects of different households’ creditworthiness conditions required by banks in order to grant a mortgage. Results show that easier access to credit inflates housing prices, triggering a short run output expansion. However, the artificial economy becomes more unstable and prone to recessions. With stricter conditions the economy is more stable and does not fall into serious recessions, although a too severe regulation can slow down economic growth.

Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Housing Market Bubbles and Business Cycles in an Agent-Based Credit Economy ; volume:8 ; number:1 ; year:2014 ; extent:43
Economics / Journal articles. Journal articles ; 8, Heft 1 (2014) (gesamt 43)

Creator
Erlingsson, Einar Jon
Teglio, Andrea
Cincotti, Silvano
Stefansson, Hlynur
Sturluson, Jon Thor
Raberto, Marco

DOI
10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2014-8
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2412130941003.446574174530
Rights
Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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