Speculative dynamics of prices and volume
Anthony A. DeFusco, Charles G. Nathanson, and Eric Zwick
Journal of Financial Economics 146(1) (2022): 205-229.
Volume cycles in bubbles due to the entry and exit of short-term investors, who sell frequently.
Additional links: free version, supplementary materials
Housing supply and affordability: Evidence from Rents, Housing Consumption and Household Location
Raven Molloy, Charles G. Nathanson, and Andrew Paciorek
Journal of Urban Economics 129 (2022)
Although regulatory restrictions on new construction raise house prices, they have much smaller effects on rents and the size of new homes.
Additional links: free version, supplementary materials
On the effects of restricting short-term investment
Nicolas Crouzet, Ian Dew-Becker, and Charles G. Nathanson
Review of Financial Studies 33(1) (2020): 1-43
[Lead article and editor’s choice]
Restricting short-term trading hurts short- and long-term professional investors but may help less sophisticated investors.
Additional links: free version
Directed Attention And Non-parametric learning
Ian Dew-Becker and Charles G. Nathanson
Journal of Economic Theory 181 (2019): 461-496
An optimal boundedly rational model captures low-frequency but not high-frequency dynamics of income.
Additional links: free version
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT: THEORY AND EVIDENCE OF SUPPLY-SIDE SPECULATION IN THE HOUSING MARKET
Charles G. Nathanson and Eric Zwick
Journal of Finance 73(6) (2018): 2587-2633
Speculation reverses the common intuition that elastic housing supply attenuates house price booms.
Additional links: free version, replication files (15.9 MB)
An extrapolative model of house price dynamics
Edward L. Glaeser and Charles G. Nathanson
Journal of Financial Economics 126(1) (2017): 147-170
A modest approximation to rationality leads house prices to display momentum, mean reversion, and excess volatility.
Additional links: working paper, simulation replication files
Taxation and the allocation of talent
Benjamin B. Lockwood, Charles G. Nathanson, and E. Glen Weyl
Journal of Political Economy 125(5) (2017): 1635-1682
When different occupations have different spillover benefits (or costs) to society, the income tax can increase efficiency by incentivizing workers to choose more productive jobs.
Additional links: supplemental appendix, replication files (23 MB)
housing bubbles
Edward L. Glaeser and Charles G. Nathanson
Handbook of Regional & Urban Economics, Vol. 5 (2015)
The most promising explanations of real estate bubbles emphasize
some form of trend-chasing, which in turn reflects boundedly rational learning.
Additional links: NBER working paper
Housing dynamics: an urban approach
Edward L. Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko, Eduardo Morales, and Charles G. Nathanson
Journal of Urban Economics 81 (2014): 45-56
A rational, spatial-equilibrium model estimated with city-level income data captures some of the mean reversion and volatility in house prices, but none of the short-run persistence.
Additional links: free version, supplemental appendix
calculating evolutionary dynamics in structured populations
Charles G. Nathanson, Corina E. Tarnita, and Martin A. Nowak
PLoS Computational Biology 5(12): 45-56 (2009)
An easily computable statistic determines which strategy in a 2-by-2 game is evolutionarily stable when that game is played on a given graph.