Household size has decreased considerably over time. We use a theoretical model for investigating the relationship between household size and the size and internal structure of a city. In a stylized model, single-person households occupy in equilibrium the central parts of the city, while...

Dwellings in housing cooperatives constitute 15 per cent of the Norwegian housing property market. The price paid for such dwellings consists of two elements: An equity price and a share of the mutual debt held by the cooperative. The interest rate paid on the housing cooperative's mutual debt...

A questionnaire-type experiment was conducted in Lithuania and Norway in order to generate two samples suitable for a comparative examination of equity judgements.The results reveal large differences between the two countries. Norwegian probants had a much higher propensity to decide in...

Since the seminal contribution of Case and Shiller (1989) several papers on the efficiency properties of housing markets have appeared. Nevertheless, there is still not full agreement on whether the housing market functions as an efficient market or not. In the present paper we apply two...