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How to Efficiently Allocate Houses under Price Controls?

Andersson, Tommy LU ; Yang, Zaifu and Zhang, Dongmo (2014) In Working Paper / Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University 24.
Abstract
Price controls are used in many regulated markets and well recognized as the cause of market inefficiency. This paper examines a practical housing market in the presence of price controls and provides a solution to the problem of how houses should be efficiently allocated among agents through a system of prices. We demonstrate that the dynamic auction by Talman and Yang (2008) always finds a core allocation in finitely many iterations, thus resulting in a Pareto efficient outcome.
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Ascending auction, assignment market, price control, Pareto efficiency, core
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17 pages
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Department of Economics, Lund Universtiy
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English
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  language     = {eng},
  note         = {Working Paper},
  publisher    = {Department of Economics, Lund Universtiy},
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  title        = {How to Efficiently Allocate Houses under Price Controls?},
  url          = {http://swopec.hhs.se/lunewp/abs/lunewp2014_024.htm},
  volume       = {24},
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