Arbeitspapier
Distributional effects of surging housing costs under Schwabe's Law
The upward sloping trend of rents and house prices has initiated a debate on the consequences of surging housing costs for wealth inequality and welfare. We employ a frictionless two-sectoral macroeconomic model with a housing sector to investigate the dynamics of wealth inequality and the determinants of welfare. Households have non-homothetic preferences, implying that the poor choose a higher housing expenditure share, which is compatible with Schwabe’s Law. We first examine the isolated effects of increasing housing costs in partial equilibrium. The model is closed by introducing a production sector that enables us to analyze the general equilibrium consequences of a widely discussed policy option, which aims at dampening the growth of housing costs. Abolishing zoning regulations triggers a slower rent growth and reduces wealth inequality by 0.7 percentage points (measured by the top 10 percent share). Average welfare increases by 0.5 percent. The household-specific welfare effects are asymmetric. The poor benefit more than the rich, and the richest wealth decile is even worse off.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 7684
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
General Aggregative Models: General
Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy: General (includes Measurement and Data)
Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General
- Thema
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macroeconomics and housing
long-term growth
Schwabe’s Law
wealth inequality
welfare
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Grossmann, Volker
Larin, Benjamin
Löfflad, Hans Torben
Steger, Thomas
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (wo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2019
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Grossmann, Volker
- Larin, Benjamin
- Löfflad, Hans Torben
- Steger, Thomas
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2019
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