We examine whether, and how, listing strategies impact sale prices in residential home sales. Literatures in housing … economics, negotiations, and auctions offer diverse predictions around this question. On the one hand, housing studies typically …

We develop an equilibrium search model of the housing market where sellers may become distressed as they are unable to …

The paper presents a model of housing and credit cycles featuring distorted beliefs and comovement and mutual …) development in house prices fuels optimism (pessimism) and credit expansion (contraction), which in turn boost (dampen) housing …

The US housing market exhibits seasonal boom and bust cycles where prices and the speed of trade (turnover rate) rise … in summers and fall in winters. We present a search model that analytically generates the observed cycles. The proposed …

can diminish its search costs on the housing market, but exposes the household to the risk of becoming a homeless … one. To do so, the household can either adopt a sequential search strategy or a simultaneous search strategy. In …-renter or a two-houses owner. The literature generally considers only the sequential search strategy. However, we show in this …

options, and there is less incentive to search. We also discuss a behavioral model where the propensity to buy increases when …

search sequentially for satisfactory deals. In the pre-merger symmetric equilibrium, consumers visit firmsrandomly. However … non-merging stores, and only when they do not find a satisfactory product there they visit the merging firms. As search … products of the constituent firms, which generates sizable search economies. We show that such demand-side economies can confer …

demand with optimal consumer search. Consumers first choose which products to search; then, once they learn the utility they … characteristics but also from variation in the costs of searching them. We apply the model to the automobile industry. Our search cost … estimate is highly significant and indicates that consumers conduct a limited amount of search. Estimates of own- and cross …

individual behavior with respect to the housing market, and add to an expanding literature on the biological and genetic factors …