Boosting taxes for boasting about houses? Status concerns in the housing market
| Autor: | Timo Trimborn, Johannes Schünemann |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Economics and Econometrics Schedule media_common.quotation_subject Distribution (economics) Optimal Taxation Pigovian tax 0502 economics and business Economics ddc:330 050207 economics Boasting Empirical evidence Residential housing D10 050205 econometrics media_common Constrained efficiency O10 Public economics R31 business.industry 05 social sciences 1. No poverty Social planner Status concerns 8. Economic growth H21 E03 E62 business Welfare Externality |
| Zdroj: | Schünemann, J & Trimborn, T 2023, ' Boosting taxes for boasting about houses? Status concerns in the housing market ', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 205, pp. 120-143 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.10.037 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jebo.2022.10.037 |
| Popis: | There is empirical evidence that households use residential houses as status goods. Their visibility qualifies them as an excellent signaling device of the relative income and wealth position, in contrast to less visible financial assets. To this end we introduce a residential housing sector and status concerns for housing into a neoclassical framework. In the model, households derive utility from the absolute amount of housing and from comparing their stock of housing to a reference stock, which is composed of the current or past level of housing of their peers. We analyze how status concerns affect household behavior and find that they increase housing demand and labor supply. Furthermore, we find that status concerns exert a negative externality and elevate housing to inefficiently high levels. We derive a (state contingent) optimal tax that establishes the first-best allocation along the transition path and at the steady state. Calibrating the model to the US we quantify the optimal tax on residential housing to 1.8%. Introducing the optimal tax entails a considerable welfare gain of 0.29% measured in consumption equivalents. |
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