HKS Affiliated Authors
Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, FAS
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Housing Supply and Housing Bubbles. Edward Glaeser, July 16, 2008, Paper. "Like many other assets, housing prices are quite volatile relative to observable changes in fundamentals. If we are going to understand boom-bust housing cycles, we must incorporate housing supply. In this paper, we present a simple model of housing bubbles that predicts that places with more elastic housing supply have fewer and shorter bubbles, with smaller price increases. However, the welfare consequences of bubbles may actually be higher in more elastic places because those places will overbuild more in response to a bubble..." Link