中国的高房价问题:基于供求均衡原理的分析

The High House Prices in China:An Analysis Based on the Principle of Supply-demand Equilibrium

运用经济学中最为基本的供求均衡原理分析了中国的房价问题。表明中国的高房价现象是价格规律在房地产这个由于刚性的制度条件所决定的市场上的反映——当需求增加不能引致供给量的相应增加时,价格就成为唯一能释放这种压力的渠道;就像计划经济注定了是短缺经济,指责其中的某些主体需要为普遍的短缺局面负责是没有道理的一样,面对高房价,类似的指责同样也是站不住的,且这样做只会导致把解决问题的注意力转移到错误的方向上。

This article uses the principle of supply-demand equilibrium—the most basic tool in economics to analyze the causes of the high house prices in China It shows that the high house prices in China is simply the reflection of the law of price in a market characterized by some rigid institutional structure;when the increase of demand cannot correspondingly induce the increase of supply,the price becomes the only channel that could get such pressure released.Just as a planned economy is doomed to be a shortage-pervasive economy and to point a finger at some agents in such an economy for the pervasive shortage is unreasonable,in facing high house prices,similar criticism is also untenable,and moreover,such doing can only shift the focus of our attention to the wrong direction.