I describe a classroom tool that I believe is helpful in the teaching of microeconomics. It is potentially usefull in microeconomics and urban economics courses in a an economics departmen, but also in microeconomics cours in a variety of professional programs, such as in city and regional...

Une motivation importante lors de la creation d'indicateurs de prix de l'immobilier est la construction de sous-indices par region ou par quartier. Des differences dans l'evolution de ces sous-indices sont alors le reflet de modifications de l'environnement, notamment des infrastructures...

Dans un precedent article (Bender et Hoesli, 1996), les auteurs ont discute les raisons pour lesquelles il est necessaire d'evaluer periodiquement a la valeur de marche les portefeuilles immobiliers des investisseurs institutionnels. Il ressort des recherches recentes que la meilleure solution...

This paper examines the economics of residential real estate brokerage. Section 2 discusses the role of the residential real estate agent - what the listing agent does, what the selling agent does, and broadly how the residential real estate brokerage market is organized. Section 3 examines...

This paper employs a probit and a Markov switching model using information from the Conference Board Leading Indicator and other predictor variables to forecast the signs of future rental growth in four key U.S. commercial rent series. We find that both approaches have considerable power to...

This study contrasts the pricing of waterfront view amenities in a South Carolina lakefront community between the bubble and the post-bubble phases of the real estate cycle. Testing for spatial autocorrelation reveals the asymmetrical operation of spatial processes between the two periods. We...

We explore the economic dependence and financial market feedback effects among firms with economic linkages, notably landlord-tenant when shocks occur to the system. In particular, we examine 157 major tenant bankruptcy announcements of retail real estate firms over the 2000 to 2010 period. The...

In this study we use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to understand how homeowners process non-financial information when considering strategic mortgage default. We find that borrowers initially attempt to inhibit their knee jerk reaction to retaliate against a lender who has engaged...

This paper demonstrates that the effects of unanticipated monetary policy changes (shocks) on REIT returns are asymmetric between the high- and low-variance regimes. We utilize a Markov regime-switching model with error correction terms to quantify the impact of monetary shocks on seven...

The demand for investment for any asset including houses and apartments depends on a relative yield-price ratio. In an equilibrium structure, the yield-price ratio is shown to depend explicitly on interest rates, capital gains and the loan-to-value ratio. For U.S. quarterly data from 1986 to...