Rent control with rationing by search costs: A note |
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Authors: | Clifford F Thies |
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Institution: | (1) Shenandoah University, 1460 University Drive, 22601 Winchester, VA |
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Abstract: | This note derives the long-run implications of rent controls when rent-controlled apartments are implicitly rationed to tenants who are more efficient in searching for apartments in the controlled sector. Rent controls are shown to involve transfers that essentially are from some to other tenants, as well as dead-weight losses due to higher search costs that are borne by tenants. Key to this analysis is the condition that, at the margin, rent plus the higher cost of search for a rent-controlled apartment must equal rent in the noncontrolled sector. |
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Keywords: | Rent control spillover search costs |
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