【光华讲坛】Waiting for Affordable Housing
主题：Waiting for Affordable Housing
主讲人：Chamna Yoon,associate professor, Sungkyunkwan University
主持人：Jipeng Zhang,associate professor, RIEM,SWUFE
时间：2018年3月30日（周五）14:00-15:30
地点：柳林校区通博楼309会议室
主办单位：经济与管理研究院 科研处
主讲人简介：
Chamna Yoon is an associate professor in Economics from Sungkyunkwan University. He got his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and worked at Baruch College, City University of New York. He has published in top economic journals such as American Economic Review, International Economic Review, etc.
主讲内容：
The purpose of this paper is to develop and estimate a new dynamic equilibrium model of housing markets for low- and moderate-income households. Our model is consistent with the key supply restrictions and search frictions that arise in the markets for public and rent regulated housing. We provide conditions that guarantee that a stationary equilibrium with rationing exists and characterize the properties of the queuing process in public housing. We estimate the model using data from Manhattan collected by the New York Housing Vacancy Survey in 2011. We find that having access to public housing increases household welfare by up to 17 percent. The estimated average time on the waitlist for Manhattan is approximately 18 years. The search frictions in the market for rent stabilized imply an average search time of 4 years. Finally, we study the welfare effects of policies aimed at reducing the mismatch in public housing by strictly enforcing eligibility criteria. We show that these policies can lead to a 25 percent decline in average wait times.
