• Mental Accounting in the Housing Market 

      Almenberg, Johan; Karapetyan, Artashes (Working Papers;20/2010, Working paper, 2010)
      We report evidence that salience may have economically significant effects on homeowners' borrowing behavior, through a bias in favour of less salient but more costly loans. We outline a simple model in which some consumers ...
    • Testing for Micro Efficiency in the Housing Market 

      Anundsen, André K.; Larsen, Erling Røed (Working Papers;6/2016, Working paper, 2016)
      While aggregate house price indices display time persistence, less is known about micro persistence. This article proposes that absence of micro persistence implies that an excessively high or low sell price in one transaction ...
    • The Hidden Costs of Hidden Debt 

      Almenberg, Johan; Karapetyan, Artashes (Working Papers;22/2011, Working paper, 2011)
      We report evidence that salience may have economically significant effects on homeowners’ borrowing behavior, through a bias in favour of less salient but more costly loans. Survey evidence corroborates the existence of ...