Similar Search Results

Glaeser, Edward L.; Gyourko, Joseph - 2015

Urban economists understand housing prices with a spatial equilibrium approach that assumes people must be indifferent across locations. Since the spatial no arbitrage condition is inherently imprecise, other economists have turned to different no arbitrage conditions, such as the prediction...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014221210

The Economic Approach to Cities

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2008

's equilibrium implies that positive attributes in one location, like access to downtown or high wages, are offset by negative … attributes, like high housing prices. The employer's equilibrium requires that high wages be offset by a high level of … justify high wages is the basis for the study of agglomeration economies which has been a significant branch of urban …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014221308

Extremism and Social Learning

Glaeser, Edward L.; Sunstein, Cass R. - 2014

When members of deliberating groups speak with one another, their predeliberation tendencies often become exacerbated as their views become more extreme. The resulting phenomenon - group polarization - has been observed in many settings, and it bears on the actions of juries, administrative...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014221314

Researcher Incentives and Empirical Methods

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2006

Economists are quick to assume opportunistic behavior in almost every walk of life other than our own. Our empirical methods are based on assumptions of human behavior that would not pass muster in any of our models. The solution to this problem is not to expect a mass renunciation of data...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014055498