"The paper provides one of the first empirical studies of the willingness to pay of renters and owner-occupiers for """"green buildings"""". We match publicly available information on the addresses of 15'000 apartments and single-family homes which have received the Swiss energy label...

Purpose – Switzerland boasts arguably the highest density of green properties in the world. In 2008, more than 15 percent of total new construction received the Swiss energy building label Minergie. The spatial distribution of these green buildings, however, is highly heterogeneous. In some...

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The goal of this paper is the identification and estimation of the demand for environmental amenities and housing attributes as it is revealed by the housing choice of households located in the greater Zurich area. The precise and reliable estimation of the demand for housing attributes and...

The paper applies spatial econometric techniques to measure the impact of airport noise on the price of single-family homes in the Zurich Airport area. We exploit a large database of geo-referenced noise measurements to investigate the reaction of prices to different noise metrics. The...

We develop a simple model of labor market participation, human capital degradation, and re-training. We focus on how non-participation, as a distinct state from unemployment and employment, is determined by the welfare system in interaction with labor market conditions and personal...