Publications associées à Law of rent

Obstacles and opportunities for reducing dwelling size to shrink the environmental footprint of housing: Tenants' residential preferences and housing choice

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Anna Pagani, Claudine Bettina Karlen

The environmental footprint of housing is greatly influenced by the size of a dwelling. Housing size is the result of households' dwelling selections; accordingly, it is critical to consider residential preferences and choices to inform efforts towards hou ...

SPRINGER2022

Understanding the Information-Based Transformation of Strategy and Society

Thomas Alois Weber

The world economy is undergoing dramatic changes, largely driven by the new availability of fine-grained information. Innovative ways of using datalarge and small-have also prompted a rethinking of the boundaries for the combination and use of knowledge. T ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2017

Rental housing and the urban poor: understanding the growth and production of rental housing in Brazilian favelas

Jean-Claude Bolay

Rental housing is increasingly becoming the key shelter option for the poor living in and moving into cities, including those living in informal settlements. The paper revisits the production of rental housing in informal settlements within the new contour ...

2016

Product Pricing in a Peer-to-Peer Economy

Thomas Alois Weber

The emergence of a collaborative economy has been driven by advances in information technology that allow consumers to borrow and rent goods among peers on a secondary sharing market. In a dynamic setting, consumers make intertemporal decisions about purch ...

2016

Housing market equilibrium (almost) without vacancies

Philippe Thalmann

The Swiss housing market is characterised by an extraordinarily low vacancy rate, generally in the vicinity of 1%. Is it permanently in a condition of severe shortage? This paper uses both a standard non-accelerating rent inflation rate of vacancy approach ...

2012

Assessing environmental amenities and testing for discrimination in housing markets using hedonic price models

Caroline Schaerer

The present thesis applies the property hedonic price model in order to assess the economic value of environmental amenities and discrimination on the Swiss rental markets of Geneva and Zurich. Indeed, economic textbooks teach that differentials in environ ...

EPFL2008