. Subsequently, housing-price inequality has risen to pre-War levels, while rent inequality has risen less. Combining both measures …

socially wasteful rent-seeking by ticket brokers. This paper studies the introduction of auctions into this market by …

rent are strongly correlated with perceptions of house price risk. Households' exposure to housing risk due to financial … constraints, expected mobility or labor income risk affect the decision to buy versus rent but do not mitigate the impact of risk …

rent level that is closer to the city of origin, relative to comparable locals. Building on “Memory, Attention, and Choice … database of experiences such as rents. The current rent cues recall of past rents, giving rise to a rental norm. A large … discrepancy between the current rent and the memory-based norm surprises and attracts the mover's attention, distorting choice …

among apartment rents in the U.S. between 1974-1981. 29 percent of units had no change in nominal rent from year to year …

loss. A major social cost of rent control is that without a fully operational price mechanism the 'wrong' consumers end up … using apartments. When prices are set below market price, many consumers want to rent apartments even though they receive … are second order. Thus for a sufficiently marginal implementation of rent control, these costs will always be more …

rent index is biased downward for all of the last century. The CPI rises roughly 2 percent per year slower than quality …-unadjusted indexes of gross rent, setting a challenge for this research of measuring the rate of quality change in rental apartments. If …