I'm going to try to put together a mini lit review on some of the recent institutional landlords papers. there are lots of papers, so I will be necessarily omitting many. Mostly focused on impacts on prices, and whether institutional landlords are killing homeownership and driving up rents.

I have a new publication out, about the assessment of housing values for tax purposes. Written with my colleagues Nygård and Thoresen, it is about the current model used for valuing housing in the Norwegian wealth tax, and how to improve the model. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Very interesting working paper on market concentration in housing supply by @leqonomics.bsky.social. Higher concentration among house builders gives lower construction, higher price volatility and lower construction volatility. Likely as relevant outside of the US. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

New, from me: A Trump official is concocting mortgage fraud claims to target opposition. It's a classic authoritarian trick. Now they are doing it to Lisa Cook, the first Black female member of the Federal Reserve to push her to resign. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-uses...

THREAD: the Ways & Means bill creates new opportunities for tax avoidance and evasion, adds complexity to the tax system, and increases filing burdens for low- & moderate-income families. My @taxlawcenter.org colleagues have more analysis coming, but here's a starter list (suggestions welcome):

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

Some stats from 100 days in on congestion pricing: - Complaints about car-honking are down 70% - The Holland Tunnel has 65% fewer delays at rush hour; time to get thru it is down 48% - 6 million fewer cars - Half as many traffic-related injuries - 1.5 million more visitors to BIDs year over year

Excited that our paper about the highly policy-relevant group of students on the margin between dropping out and completing high school is finally forthcoming in JOLE. @eckhoffandresen.bsky.social

I think this paper makes good arguments for using automatic valuation methods in property tax assessments.

Interesting on the strong influence of regulations on built form.

An administration serious about fixing the deficit would not fire the people who collect the money needed to fix the deficit. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...

New working paper with two colleagues (Nygård & Thoresen). We look at how to value residential property for tax purposes. There are several different taxes on residential property. Mostly, authorities want tax valuations to reflect market value of the property. 1/5 www.ssb.no/en/priser-og...

Helping out America’s tax cheats. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

My paper on the relationship between inequality aversion and non-discrimination has just been published in Economica onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... The main result is that inequality aversion in tax policy is overestimated when horizontal equity is ignored.

Finland has downgraded most MDPI and Frontiers journals to junk. Seems reasonable. julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...

U of Oslo hiring new Econ PhD students! Good salary, great work environment (English work language), brilliant colleagues, family-friendly norms, welfare benefits (paid parental leave, access to subsidized child care); great city by the fjord, hiking/skiing a short Metro ride away! shorturl.at/lETgr

Pretty striking findings! www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/app/uploads/...

New working paper! How Business Income Measures Affect Income Inequality and the Tax Burden, with Aaberge, Francesconi and Vestad. Using Norwegian administrative data, we show that income inequality is much higher than commonly measured. Measurement matters! www.iza.org/publications...

Our paper on local incentives for electric vehicles is finally published in JAERE. This is maybe the most solid piece of research that i have co-authored so far. I hope this will inspire more transport economic research based on administrative microdata. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

"We find an additional $1 spent auditing taxpayers above the 90th income percentile yields more than $12 in revenue, while audits of below-median income taxpayers yield $5."

SaM 2025 at Vilnius University. Submit your papers! sam2025.econ.lt/home

Statistics Norway, the Norwigan statistics bureau (and my employer), is dropping Twitter. About time I would say. Norwegian blue checks reacting as moderately and politely as one would expect...

TIL that to purchase a car in Beijing, you need to win a quota lottery. The reason is to restrict the growth of car traffic.

* Publication day * Two papers that I am really proud of in print on the same day. One is on market-based discount rates and whether they capture preferences for the future, the other on how to price carbon. Check them out! Summaries to come later. #EconSky

As with the Norwegian tax system. It isn't the mortgage interest deduction that favors owners over renters, it's the lack of tax on imputed housing income. That should be corrected. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

In my housing column in Norwegian newspaper DN, I this time discuss rental regulation, based on Diamond, McQuade & Qian (2019).

New version of my paper on Buy-to-let investors available. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....