This paper estimates the impact of the murder of film maker Theo van Gogh on November 2, 2004, on listed house prices in Amsterdam with a unique dataset. We use an hedonic-market approach to show that general attitudes towards Muslim minorities were negatively affected by the murder....

Housing markets have a large impact on the macro economy. The recovery of house price declines is usually slow, as transactions decline in a slump. In this paper we present new evidence of list price dynamics in up and down markets, using a novel dataset on actual list prices in the Dutch...

This paper estimates the impact of the murder of film maker Theo vanGogh on November 2, 2004, on listed house prices in Amsterdam with aunique dataset. We use an hedonic-market approach to show that gen-eral attitudes towards Muslim minorities were negatively affected by themurder. Specifically,...