This research applies data from a unique natural policy experiment to assess the effects of heuristics on housing decisions and public policy outcomes. The data derive from programs designed to privatize public housing in Israel. The programs provided tenants with a call (real) option to...

Based on behavioral finance and economics literature, we construct a theoretical framework in which consumers of newly constructed housing units perceive prices to follow a stochastic mean reversion pattern. Given this belief and the high carrying cost maintained by real estate developers,...

This research is the first to explore the time-to-sell (TTS) and willingness to pay (WTP) in the context of green real estate. We employ unique data on transactions and household characteristics of owner-occupiers in newly developed green and conventionally built condominiums. We find that,...

This research employs data from a natural experiment to assess the effects of behavioral heuristics on housing choice and public program management. The analysis focuses on programs designed to privatize public housing in Israel. The government programs provided tenants with a call (real) option...

Empirical findings in physiology and psychology show that disabled persons often develop physical and mental mechanisms to compensate for disabilities. Coping mechanisms may not be limited to the psycho-physiological domain, however, and may extend to economic behavior. Improved economic...