The Price of Inattention: Evidence from the Swedish Housing Market
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- Luca Repetto & Alex Solís, 2020. "The Price of Inattention: Evidence from the Swedish Housing Market," Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association, vol. 18(6), pages 3261-3304.
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Keywords
Housing market; auctions; inattention; first-digit bias;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C78 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Bargaining Theory; Matching Theory
- D44 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Auctions
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- R31 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location - - - Housing Supply and Markets
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CTA-2017-10-22 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-EUR-2017-10-22 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-URE-2017-10-22 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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