Showing posts with label houses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label houses. Show all posts
Thursday, November 16, 2023

Top trading cycles 'respect improvements' by rewarding agents whose endowments become more desirable

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  Here's a wide-ranging paper that explores the way the Top Tradinig Cycles (TTC) algorithm 'respects improvements' by rewarding...
Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Homelessness and fentanyl, in Oregon and California

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 Both the criminal justice system and the harm reduction movement seem to be facing an intractable problem with fentanyl and homelessness.  ...
Thursday, January 20, 2022

Vacancy chains in urban housing

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  Vacancy chains occur not just in labor markets, but also in housing markets. (Earlier this week I wrote about housing chains for hermit cr...
Thursday, June 3, 2021

Realtors still have a few tricks up their sleeves--"Whisper listings"

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 It once looked as if the growth of the internet, and increased access to home listing databases, would substantially weaken the grip of lic...
Saturday, September 26, 2020

The unsharing economy: part time gig evicting people from their apartments

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  Vice.com has the story: Gig Economy Company Launches Uber, But for Evicting People--A company called Civvl says evicting people is the &qu...
Sunday, July 30, 2017

Nesterly: matching student tenants to empty-nesters

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Helping Boomers Find Millennial Roommates LINDA POON  JUL 1, 2017 In a college town, students and older homeowners have a lot to offer ea...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

House swapping in the UK

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Neil Thakral writes: Regarding ... public-housing residents switching units, I mentioned that this happens in the UK ( https://www.gov....
Friday, August 5, 2016

Matching refugees and landlords in Sweden, by Tommy Andersson and Lars Ehlers

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 After refugees have found a country of asylum, there's still work to do. Here's some help on how to do it in Sweden: Assigning R...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Gazumping in England: repugnant and soon to be illegal?

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When does a contract to sell a home become binding? That may be about to change in England. The Telegraph has the story. Relief for home b...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

A Dutch exchange for rental housing leases

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A Dutch site that calls itself the largest home exchange site in the Netherlands ( De grootste woningruilsite van Nederland ) seems to offe...
Saturday, December 6, 2014

Housing markets through thick and thin (and back again)

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A paper in the December AER discusses seasonality in the housing market: when the market is thick, better match quality raises prices... ...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Real estate ads in Britain: "no upward chain"

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Some time ago I blogged about how transactions in tight real estate markets might produce chains (or even cycles) of transactions, in which...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

The internet and the market for summer rental housing

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Along with all the first order effects of the internet, it has had big effects on small markets, like secondhand books and, it turns out, v...
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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Home exchanges

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In the WSJ, a retired California couple discuss the (approaching three dozen) home exchanges they have done, bartering a stay at their San ...
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Monday, March 12, 2012

John Campbell on Mortgage Market Design

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John Campbell writes about  Mortgage Market Design "Although the US has roughly average levels of homeownership (67%) and mortgage de...
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Friday, December 10, 2010

Time share markets for vacation housing

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Ernan Haruvy and Yu Wang explore some market design issues that arise in vacation house exchange, theoretically and experimentally, in their...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Judd Kessler on the roommate problem in 2002

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In response to my recent posts on roommate matching for college students, Judd Kessler points me to a newspaper column he wrote in 2002, on...
Sunday, September 12, 2010

Matchmaking at Harvard, the roommate problem

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The Crimson reports, In Choosing Roommates, Deans Become Matchmakers . "The day is June 10, and Resident Dean of Freshmen Sue Brown e...
Friday, November 20, 2009

Harvard housing

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Harvard sophomores, juniors and seniors are assigned housing randomly, with some details that require strategic thinking. The objective see...
Thursday, October 8, 2009

Real estate; disaggregating a bundle of services

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There are cracks beginning to show in the way real estate is sold. For a long time, the only realistic option for selling a home was to empl...
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