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Welfare effects of housing Welfare effects of housing price appreciation in an price appreciation in an
economy with binding credit economy with binding credit constraintsconstraints
LectureLecture presentation presentation
Ashot Tsharakyan Ashot Tsharakyan
April 2008April 2008
Presentation Outline
Introduction and motivation The general model with endogenous housing price and binding
credit constraints Special cases Definition of welfare adjustment The results of the model with exogenous housing price and binding
credit constraints Endogenous housing price model: Supply-side shocks Comparison of the welfare adjustment in credit-constrained and
unconstrained models Endogenous housing price model: Demand-side shocks US economy in 1995-2004: Actual aggregate welfare adjustment Summary
Introduction and motivation 1/5 Considerable housing price appreciation in the developed
countries during last decade, particularly in US
Dynamics of housing prices in US from 1986 to 2004
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Introduction and motivation 2/5
Existing research:
1. the effects of housing price appreciation on household’s consumption and welfare (Campbell and Cocco(2005),Li and Yao(2004),Bajari et all(2005))
2. the effects of credit constraints on the housing market behavior (Ortalo-Magne and Rady(2005))
Introduction and motivation 3/5 Bajari et all (2005) conclude that up to first order
approximation there are no effects of the housing price appreciation on aggregate welfare
Two major limitations in their analysis: 1. The households are assumed to be not credit constrained 2. Housing price is given exogenously (no explicit equilibrium in
the housing market) and it appreciates due to unspecified shocks
In Bajari et all (2005) the beneficial effect of housing price appreciation which comes from relaxation of credit constraints and better consumption smoothing, is ignored
The source of housing price appreciation should intuitively matter for its eventual welfare effects
Introduction and motivation 4/5 In reality credit constraints are important drivers of the
housing market:
a) Empirical evidence: over 65% of owner-occupied housing stock in US is mortgage financed, average actual LTV ratio in US very close to maximum allowed LTV (constraints are binding)
b) From modeling perspective, Ortalo-Magne and Rady (2005) identify a crucial role of capital gains and losses experienced by credit-constrained individuals in explaining housing market fluctuations.
It should be important to model the source of housing price
appreciation that is to make housing price endogenous
Introduction and motivation 5/5
First, aggregate welfare effects of housing price appreciation are explored in exogenous price model with binding credit constraints
Then the endogenous price model is constructed in which housing price appreciates due to different supply and demand side shocks
Change in building permit cost as a supply-side shifter (based on Glaeser and Guyorko (2005) , changes in income and interest rates as demand-side shifter
Endogenous price model is analyzed in both credit constrained and unconstrained versions
Finally, cumulative aggregate welfare adjustment from the considered combination of shocks is computed by aggregating the results in credit constrained and unconstrained models
Housing price is determined endogenously and it changes
endogenously due to demand or supply shocks
Demand side is represented by the households and supply side is represented by competitive sector of construction firms
Construction firms face CRS Cobb-Douglass technology (Amin and Cappoza(1993)), use capital and land as inputs and need to obtain building permit from zoning authority
Housing stock depreciates with constant rate δ
The model with endogenous housing price and binding credit constraints 1/4
The model with endogenous housing price and binding credit constraints 2/4
Possible forms of credit constraint: Margin clause (Mendoza and Durdu(2004)) 1
Kiyotaki-Moore constraint 2
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1 i.e households can borrow only up to fraction m<1 of total value of their housing stock 2 households can borrow as long as the gross repayment next period does not exceed the next period’s expected monetary value of the collateral.
The household’s optimization problem ( case with margin clause)
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where k=K/L is capital to land ratio
n is the regulatory cost of obtaining building permit (which is the source of endogenous housing price appreciation,
based on Glaeser and Guyorko(2005)) Profit-maximizing input is given by:
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Construction firm’s optimization problem
Special cases a) Model with exogenous housing price and credit-constrained
households:
Housing price is not determined endogenously. It is exogenous and it is contained in the value function of the household as a state. It appreciates due to non-specified shock
No construction firms in the model. Depreciation of housing is abstracted from and it is assumed that fixed stock of housing is traded
b) Model with endogenous housing price but binding credit constraints
Credit constraint is removed from household’s optimization problem
Definition of welfare adjustment Change in income necessary to keep household’s lifetime utility
constant in case of housing price appreciation.
For the exogenous price model it is derived from the following formula by solving for :
For the endogenous price model it is derived from the following formula by
solving for (case of change in building permit cost)
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The results of the model with exogenous housing price and binding credit constraints
Individual welfare adjustment is given by the following expression :
Comparison with Bajari at al (2005) result :
a) Welfare loss is lower (welfare gain is higher) because of the additional beneficial effect of housing price appreciation in form of relaxation of binding credit constraints.
b) Homeowners do get a certain benefit from housing price appreciation even without participating in housing transactions (when xj,t=0)
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Aggregate welfare adjustment Aggregate welfare adjustment is the sum of individual adjustments
When summing up across households the first term drops out based on market clearing and aggregate welfare adjustment is given by :
IMPORTANT FINDING
The housing price appreciation in the economy subject to binding credit constraint implies improvement in the aggregate welfare (in case of exogenous housing price assumption)
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Quantification of the result of exogenous housing price model
Per household change in aggregate welfare in the economy with binding credit constraints
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Endogenous price model: Supply side shocks 1/3
Solve household’s and firm’s problem, define equilibrium, derive steady state ,analyze what happens in the steady state when building permit cost increases.
Assume special case utility function of modified Cobb-Douglass form (Li and Yao (2004))
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The welfare adjustment resulting from change in building permit
cost in the model with credit constraints is given by:
The welfare adjustment resulting from change in building permit cost in the model without credit constraints is given by:
Endogenous price model: Supply side shocks 2/3
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Endogenous price model: Supply-side shocks 3/3 Under the reasonable values of parameters (given in the
table below) both of the welfare adjustments shown previously are positive , implying welfare loss
Parameter Value in unconstrained model
Value in the model with credit constraints
i 0.04 0.05
π 0.02 0.02
δ 0.025 0.025
ω 0.56 0.56
m - 0.8
β 0.98 0.96
Comparison of the welfare adjustment in credit-constrained and unconstrained models 1/2
Sensitivity analysis for different values of ω
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0.3 1.154829 0.473092
0.4 1.217672 0.740199
0.5 1.287749 1.11679
0.6 1.366385 1.685037
0.7 1.455248 2.636675
0.8 1.556474 4.546914
0.9 1.672835 8.291815
Comparison of the welfare adjustment in credit-constrained and unconstrained models 2/2
Relationship between welfare adjustments in the constrained and unconstrained economies depends on relative weight of housing in the utility function ( parameter ω)
What is the proper value for ω ? Use the fact that is the function of ω and
parameters only Calibrate shares of housing and non-durable consumption in
the household’s expenditures (shares available from CES by BLS)
Calculate ω from the resulting equation The plausible range for ω is 0.56-0.64
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Endogenous price model:Demand-side shocks 1/5
Changes in household income are straightforward demand shocks
Joint dynamics of median household income and constant-quality housing price index
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Endogenous price model:Demand-side shocks 2/5
Welfare adjustment resulting from housing price appreciation driven by income changes in the constrained model is given by:
In the unconstrained model it is given by:
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Endogenous price model:Demand-side shocks 3/5
Positive demand-side shock can also be generated by
declines in the interest rates.
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Endogenous price model:Demand-side shocks 4/5
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Endogenous price model:Demand-side shocks 5/5
Welfare adjustment resulting from housing price appreciation driven by changes in the interest rates in the model with credit constraint is given by:
Welfare adjustment resulting from housing price appreciation driven by changes in the interest rates in the unconstrained model is given by:
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Endogenous price model: Demand-side shocks vs supply-side shocks
Quantify welfare adjustments resulting from housing appreciation driven by changes in income and interest rates using already set values of parameters
The results show that those adjustments are negative implying that housing price appreciation driven by changes in income and interest rates leads to welfare improvement
As already shown, negative supply side shock in the form increase in building permit cost leads to welfare loss
Modeling source of housing price appreciation is important when considering the welfare effects of housing price appreciation
US economy in 1995-2004: Actual
aggregate welfare adjustment 1/2
It is reasonable to expect that combination of demand and supply shocks affected the real US economy and US housing market
Apply theoretical results to actual US economy, and calculate the aggregate welfare effects of housing price appreciation driven by combination of considered demand and supply shocks
for 1995-2004 (period of significant housing price growth)
Use US data to calculate changes in shock variables over the considered period, calculate resulting welfare adjustments for each shock and each model (credit-constrained and unconstrained), sum them up over shocks for each group of households
US economy in 1995-2004: Actual
aggregate welfare adjustment 2/2 Calibrate the weights of credit constrained and unconstrained
households in the economy, using data on net worth of US households by the age of the household head (available from Survey of Consumer Finance)
Aggregate over the calibrated weights the results for credit constrained and unconstrained models to get final cumulative aggregate welfare change
Result : Aggregate welfare improved, demand-side shocks dominated during the considered period
Summary In the exogenous housing price model with binding credit constraints
housing price appreciation implies an improvement in aggregate welfare.
The result is due to the fact that credit-constrained model takes into account the welfare improving effect of the housing price appreciation, which implies relaxation of binding credit constraints.
In the model with endogenous housing price, welfare effect of housing price appreciation depends on whether it is caused by demand-side shock or supply-side shock
The relationship between supply-driven welfare adjustments in the two modeling alternatives depends on the relative weight housing in the agent.s utility function
The calculation of cumulative aggregate welfare adjustment shows that demand-side shocks dominated in US economy and aggregate welfare improved