"We investigate the determinants of housing satisfaction in twelve EU countries. To do so, we use panel data covering the period 1994-2001, which allows us to control for individual heterogeneity. We carry out separate estimates on the determinants of housing satisfaction for homeowners and for...

This work exploits the natural experiment provided by the unexpected disintegration of socialist East Germany to study the impact of the mass immigration of East Germans on housing rents in West German metropolitan areas. Using a spatial correlation approach, annual district-level migration data...

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Symbols -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 2.1 Related Literature -- 2.2 Historical Background -- 3 Empirical Strategy and Data -- 3.1 Empirical Strategy -- 3.2 Data -- 3.2.1 Geography --...

In this paper we explore spatial effects in a hedonic price function framework for a large sample of apartments in Moscow. We find strong evidence of both spatial lag and spatial autocorrelation. Our results are robust across both the spatial model specifications and the choice of the spatial...