While I’m not terribly familiar with the details, I’ve heard complaints of this happening at one university that I know of. There’s an internal market where departments need to pay for using spaces within the university building. As a result, rooms that would otherwise be used will sit empty because the benefit of paying the rent isn’t worth it.
This is confusing. Why doesn’t the rent on the empty rooms fall until there are either no empty rooms or no buyers looking to use rooms? Any kind of auction mechanism (which is what I’d expect to see from something described as a “market”) should exhibit the behavior I’ve described.
This is confusing. Why doesn’t the rent on the empty rooms fall until there are either no empty rooms or no buyers looking to use rooms? Any kind of auction mechanism (which is what I’d expect to see from something described as a “market”) should exhibit the behavior I’ve described.