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Discrimination in Europe : evidence from the rental market
(Discussion Papers;No. 547, Working paper, 2008)Abstract: This paper considers statistical discrimination in rental markets, using a rich data set on rental contracts from Norway. We find that tenants born abroad pay a statistically significant and economically important ... -
Does the housing market react to new information on school quality?
(Discussion Papers;No. 541, Working paper, 2008)Abstract: This paper analyzes housing market reactions to the release of previously unpublished information on school quality. Using the sharp discontinuity in the information environment allows us to study price changes ... -
Home, sweet home or is it -always? Testing the efficiency of the Norwegian housing market
(Discussion Papers;No. 506, Working paper, 2007)Abstract: The question of whether the housing market is efficient or not is posed by an increasing number of economists, policymakers, current homeowners and prospective homebuyers. This article tests the efficiency ... -
Markets where buyers also are sellers : how realized home equity may work as an accelerator of house prices
(Discussion Papers;No. 618, Working paper, 2010)Abstract: The house price level is a function of buyers’ realized home equity, and buyers’ realized home equity is a function of the house price level. This interdependence follows from the fact that buyers are sellers ... -
Rising inequality of housing? : evidence from segmented housing price indices
(Discussion Papers;No. 363, Working paper, 2003)Abstract: This article uses the Case-Shiller technique for constructing housing price indices on a Norwegian data set of transactions for the period 1991-2002 consisting of 10 376 pairs of repeated sales. Using a weighted ... -
Searching for basic consumption patterns : is the Engel elasticity of housing unity?
(Discussion Papers;No. 323, Working paper, 2002)Abstract: We estimate Engel elasticities of housing expenditures for each independent cross-section of the Consumer Expenditure Surveys in the period 1986-1998, and find that the elasticity remains close to unity for all ... -
Self-reinforcing effects between housing prices and credit: an extended version
(Discussion papers;756, Working paper, 2013-10)The financial crisis has brought the interaction between housing prices and household borrowing into the limelight of economic policy debate. This paper examines the nexus of housing prices and credit in Norway within a ... -
The impact on rent from tenant and landlord characteristics and interaction
(Discussion Papers;No. 467, Working paper, 2006)Abstract: Owner-occupied housing services and rented housing services are often considered close substitutes, and both house price and rental price indices rely on regressions based on dwelling and location characteristics. ...