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A life-cycle theory analysis of french household electricity demand
Belaïd, Fateh; Rault, Christophe; Massié, Camille - 2021
This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behaviour through the household … electricity consumption follows an inverted U-shaped distribution as a function of the age of the household's head. Most notably … outcome has important implications for policy-making. Any public policy aimed at reducing household energy consumption should …
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Price and quantity effects of the German real estate transfer tax
Petkova, Kunka; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2017 - This version: 15 June 2017
This paper analyzes the tax effects of the German real estate transfer tax (RETT). While the vast majority of single-family houses in Germany are owner-occupied, apartments are usually held by private and incorporated investors. For this reason, we conducted a regression analysis to determine...
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The impact of foreclosure on housing prices
Siebert, Ralph - 2015
The aim of the study is to explain if the foreclosure effect on prices is explained by a lower quality of foreclosed houses, which is a crucial aspect in the intelligibility of foreclosures. Based on a novel and comprehensive dataset, we estimate the impact of foreclosure on home prices in...
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Airbnb and rental markets : evidence from Berlin
Duso, Tomaso; Michelsen, Claus; Schäfer, Maximilian; … - 2021
We exploit two policy interventions in Berlin, Germany, to causally identify the impact of Airbnb on rental markets. While the first intervention significantly reduced the number of high-availability Airbnb listings bookable for most of the year, the second intervention led to the exit of...
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Gentrification and affordable housing policies
Borck, Rainald; Gohl, Niklas - 2021
We use a quantitative spatial equilibrium model to evaluate the distributional and welfare impacts of a recent temporary rent control policy in Berlin, Germany. We calibrate the model to key features of Berlin’s housing market, in particular the recent gentrification of inner city locations....
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Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? : evidence from the German housing market
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Krolage, Carla; … - 2021
This paper examines the effects of real estate transfer taxes (RETT) on property prices using a rich micro dataset of roughly 17 million German properties for the period from 2005 to 2019. We exploit a 2006 constitutional reform that allows states to set their own RETT rates, leading to frequent...
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Early effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on housing market in the United States
Yörük, Barış K. - 2020
I use daily data from fifty major cities to investigate the early effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on housing market in the United States. I find that starting from the second half of March, 2020, new home listings and pending home sales started to decrease. By mid-April, certain markets...
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Why do buyers pay different prices for comparable products? : evidence from the housing market
Siebert, Ralph; Seiler, Michael J. - 2020
We focus on the housing market and examine why nonlocal home buyers (NLBs) pay 15 percent more for houses than local home buyers (LBs). We estimate a housing demand model that returns heterogeneous willingness to pay parameters for housing attributes. Our results show that NLBs are willing to...
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Limited attention in the housing market : threshold effects of energy-performance certificates on property prices and energy-efficiency investments
Sejas-Portillo, Rodolfo; Comerford, David; Moro, Mirko; … - 2020
We study the effects of limited attention on property prices and energy efficiency (EE) investments in the housing market. Using a novel dataset, we analyse over 5 million residential property sale transactions in England and Wales, each containing information about sale price, property and...
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Cointegration of matched home purchases and rental price indexes : evidence from Sinpagore
Baltagi, Badi H.; Li, Jing - 2015
This paper exploits the homogeneity feature of the Singapore private residential condominium market and constructs matched home purchase price and rental price series using the repeated sales method. These matched series allow us to conduct time series analysis to examine the long-term present...
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