Housing Rental Contracts and Adverse Selection with an Application to the Rent-Own Decision
A model of rental housing is developed in which landlords cannot observe the utilization rate of their tenants. As a result of this imperfect information, an adverse selection problem exists where high utilization households have an incentive to conceal their type in order to obtain more favorable contract terms. Consequently, the market equilibrium must satisfy a self-selection constraint, which imposes certain restrictions on the set of contracts that will be offered by landlords. These restrictions are examined in detail, and their implications for a household's decision to rent or own its housing are derived. Copyright American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.
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1989
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Authors: | Miceli, Thomas J. |
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Real Estate Economics. - American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association - AREUEA. - Vol. 17.1989, 4, p. 403-421
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American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association - AREUEA |
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