Discretionary Profit in Subsidised Housing Markets

Nentjes, A. & Schöpp, W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5990-423X (2000). Discretionary Profit in Subsidised Housing Markets. Urban Studies 37 (1) 181-194. 10.1080/0042098002357.

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Abstract

In the subsidised housing sector, building corporations can use their market power as purchasers to raise output of subsidised housing to a level higher than it is with perfect competition on both sides of the market. This holds true if the building society is perfectly X-efficient. The proposition is not necessarily true if the corporation maximises a utility function in which discretionary profit, or organisational slack, is an argument. The X-inefficient building society may set output higher or lower than with perfect competition. If the government grants a fixed subsidy per house and tries to constrain X-inefficiency by imposing a maximum price, this might be an incentive for the building corporation to maintain a planned shortage of subsidised houses. However, housing shortages will be smaller and welfare possibly greater than it is with perfect competition. The existence of a perfectly competitive non-subsidised housing sector is for the building corporation an incentive to increase strategically the output of subsidised housing and reduce planned shortages; but it does not necessarily eliminate such shortages.

Item Type:	Article
Depositing User:	Luke Kirwan
Date Deposited:	03 Aug 2016 13:36
Last Modified:	27 Aug 2021 17:27
URI:	https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/13562

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