We provide a new method for estimating hedonic functions in a metropolitan housing market for both rental rates and real estate asset prices. First, our method treats housing quality as unobserved by the econometrician. Second, it deals with the problem that implicit rental rates for...

The purpose of this paper is to test if there exists an eviction of the private tourism investment by the level of land tax (patent tax and urban tax), linked to investment. The consideration of land tax variable and that of public infrastructure expenditure in the private investment equation...

The concepts of an environmental Gini coefficient along with a measure of ''pollution elasticity'' are introduced and used to analyze the distribution of pollution across U.S. states from 1988 -- 1996. The special properties of the Gini coefficient allow one to decompose overall pollution...

El objetivo de este artículo es evaluar el impacto sobre el default hipotecario de la política que regulaba la indexación de los saldos hipotecarios durante la década de los noventa. Argumentamos en el artículo que la política introducida por las autoridades económicas colombianas durante...

By integrating a “big” dataset of Internet Speedtest® measurements from Ookla® with data on household incomes from the American Community Survey (ACS), we attempt to measure Internet speeds across income tiers. In the Ookla data, each measurement is technically rigorous but the sample...

The LIBOR Market Model (LMM or BGM) has become one of the most popular models for pricing interest rate products. It is commonly believed that Monte-Carlo simulation is the only viable method available for the LIBOR Market Model. In this article, however, we propose a lattice approach to price...

Under the background of the electronic security trading platform Xetra operated by Frankfurt Stock Exchange, we consider the Xetra auction market system (XAMS) from `bottom-up', which the interaction among heterogeneous traders and Xetra auction market mechanism generates non-equilibrium price...

We propose a theory of how market power affects wage inequality. We ask how goods and labor market power jointly affect the level of wages, the Skill Premium, and wage inequality. We then use detailed microdata from the US Census between 1997 and 2016 to estimate the parameters of labor supply,...

This study uses an agent-based test bed (“AMES”)to investigate separation and volatility of locational marginalprices (LMPs) in an ISO-managed restructured wholesale powermarket operating over an AC transmission grid. Particular attentionis focused on the dynamic and cross-sectional response...

In April 2003 the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission proposed a complicated marketdesign – the Wholesale Power Market Platform (WPMP) – for common adoption byall U.S. wholesale power markets. Versions of the WPMP have been implemented in NewEngland, New York, the mid-Atlantic states,...