We investigate housing market responses to transaction taxes using administrative data on
all property transactions in the UK from 2004 to 2012 combined with quasi-experimental …

The past decade has witnessed remarkable technological innovations and a proliferation of
new business models in the real estate sector. However, much of the potential of these …

Using discontinuities in housing transaction taxes in New York and New Jersey we find
robust price bunching. Incidence for transactions local to the notch falls on sellers, with no …

For many younger and lower-income people, housing affordability continues to worsen.
Based on the academic research of two distinguished housing economists–and stimulated …

Many countries apply lower fines to tax evading individuals when they voluntarily disclose
the tax evasion they committed. I model such voluntary disclosure mechanisms theoretically …

This paper estimates the behavioral response to residential real estate transfer taxes by
studying notched tax rate changes in Washington DC, exploiting both a price and time notch …

This paper uses recent data for single-family home purchases to study the effects of the
German real estate transfer tax. We aim to separate the tax's anticipatory effects from its lock …

We estimate the effect of the UK Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT)–a transfer tax on the
purchase price of property or land–on different types of household mobility using micro data …

In this study, we exploit a policy shock that differentially increased capital gains taxes for
housing units with holding period less than 5 years, and document tax avoidance and tax …

We show that house prices in general did not respond to a substantial cut in the national
property tax in Sweden. The estimates are based on rich register data covering more than …