Housing
The Trends That Will Define the Global Economy in 2024
Four economists discuss the trends in the global economy they are tracking in 2024
Algorithmic Collusion in the Housing Market
While the development of artificial intelligence has led to efficient business strategies, such as dynamic pricing, this new technology is vulnerable to collusion and consumer harm when companies share the same software through a central platform. Gabriele Bortolotti highlights the importance of antitrust enforcement in this domain for the second article in our series, using as a case study the RealPage class action lawsuit in the Seattle housing market.
Study: the Covid-19 Eviction Moratoriums Helped Reduce Food Insecurity and Mental Stress
A new study investigates the impact of 2020 Covid-19 rental eviction moratoria on the wellbeing of US households, finding that eviction moratoria across the...
“Is the Market Actually Efficient? No, It Is Only a Very Powerful Narrative”
A conversation with Nobel Prize laureate Robert Shiller on his new book, Narrative Economics: "Economists do not study narratives systematically, but they shape the...
A Change to Policy on All-Cash Housing Purchases Reveals How Anonymous Capital Can Distort Markets
Until 2016, anonymous buyers could purchase US real estate in cash through shell companies without reporting their real identities. But that year a new...
Excessive Zoning Makes Us Poorer and More Unequal
We normally think of income inequality as a function of differences in class or socioeconomic status. But much more than generally realized, geographic differences...
