The dual motives of housing behavior, consumption and investment make the analysis of housing purchases quite difficult. As a matter of fact, while a larger literature, theoretical and empirical, deals with housing tenure choice by modeling housing consumption demand, few studies have tried to...

The empirical evidence on rational inattention lags far behind the theoretical developments: micro evidence on the most immediate consequence of observation costs − the infrequent observation of state variables − is not available in standard datasets. We contribute to filling the gap with...

The empirical evidence on rational inattention lags far behind the theoretical developments: micro evidence on the most immediate consequence of observation costs − the infrequent observation of state variables − is not available in standard datasets. We contribute to filling the gap with...