Während in der ökonomischen Literatur Immobilienpreise hauptsächlich mit Ausstattungsmerkmalen erklärt werden, wird die Frage nach dem Einfluss der Anbieterform erstaunlich selten gestellt. Dies ist umso bemerkenswerter, da Anbietereinflüsse in öffentlichen Debatten, z.B. über die...

Over the past two years, the cost of housing and community amenities has been growing at a moderate rate. Due to financial problems, one in every ten households delayed paying its bills, or paid them only in part. The volume of housing and community amenities payments in arrears remained the...

Problem Definition: Online short-term house rental platforms, which traditionally matched individual owners with individual customers (P2P), has recently experienced an influx of corporate players on the supply side controlling multiple assets. Our goal is to understand the implications of this...

In this paper, we assess the impact of the arrival and expansion of Airbnb on housing rents and prices in the city of Barcelona. Examining highly detailed data on rents and both transaction and posted prices, we use several econometric approaches that exploit the exact timing and geography of...

This paper develops a theoretical search model of apartment swap in the rental market. Using random matching mechanism, we mimic the informal Swedish swap market, which is characterized by strong rent control and dominant ownership of the apartments by municipalities. Our proposed framework...

This paper provides estimates of the net depreciation rate for rental housing using a unique confidential data set from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that covers over 30,000 rental units from 1998 to 2009. Our data and econometric approach allow us to add to the literature in three main ways....