Work in progress
Market rate housing construction in urban neighborhoods
with Stefan Leknes
Preempting housing auctions
with Andreas E. Eriksen
Measuring housing market mismatch
Published papers
Buy to let: The role of rental markets in housing booms, forthcoming, International Economic Review, 2026
How do rental investors affect housing price dynamics? I develop a search model that allows housing owners to invest in rental housing. The model matches the high investor share and housing price increase observed in a housing boom in Oslo, Norway, while featuring increasing price-to-rent, and correlation of the buy-to-let share with housing price growth. In the model, an exogenous shock to population inflow increases demand for both owned and rented housing. Increased rental demand induces more buy-to-let investors to enter the market, adding extra demand to the housing market. Search frictions are important to explain an increasing price-to-rent ratio.
[Published version] [Working paper] [Press: DN; Aftenposten]
Improving housing valuation for taxation: The Norwegian case, forthcoming International Tax and Public Finance, 2025
with Odd Erik Nygård and Thor Olav Thoresen
[Published version] [Working paper]
Buy to let housing investors in the Nordic countries, Invited contribution, Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2021: 49 - 72
[Published version] [Press: E24]
Taxation of housing: Killing several birds with one stone, Review of Income and Wealth, 2020, 66(3): 534 - 557
[Published version] [Working paper] [Press: Klassekampen; Frifagbevegelse]
Heterogeneity of the Carnegie effect, Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54(3): 726 - 759
with Elin Halvorsen and Thor Olav Thoresen
[Published version] [Working paper] [Press: Dagsavisen; DN; Significance magazine]
Match quality in housing transactions: What can we learn from comparing buyers and sellers? Journal of Housing Economics, 2018, 41: 184 - 199
[Published version] [Accepted manuscript (pdf)] [Working paper (substantially different from published version)] [Press: Dagsavisen]
Taxes on the Internet: Deterrence Effects of Public Disclosure, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015, 7(1): 36 - 62
with Joel Slemrod and Thor Olav Thoresen
[Published version] [Working paper] [Press: The Economist; Aftenposten]
Horizontal Inequity under a Dual Income Tax System: Principles and Measurements, International Tax and Public Finance, 2012, 19(5): 625 - 640
with Peter Lambert and Thor Olav Thoresen
[Published version] [Working paper]
A Suggestion for Evaluating the Redistributional Effects of Tax Changes: With an Application to the 2006 Norwegian Tax Reform, Public Finance Review, 2012, 40(3): 303 - 348
with Thor Olav Thoresen, Erik Fjærli and Elin Halvorsen
[Published version] [Working paper]
Published papers in Norwegian
Leiemarkedets rolle og fremtid, Samfunnsøkonomen, 2024, 138(3): 34 - 41.
Hedonisk verdsettelse av bolig med fleksibel geografisk inndeling, Tidsskrift for boligforskning, 2022, 5(2): 70 - 87.
with Per Medby, Odd Erik Nygård and Mona Takle
[Published version] [Working paper]
Fordelingseffekter av skattereformen i 2006, Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning, 2012, 53(3): 267 - 294.
with Thor Olav Thoresen, Erik Fjærli and Elin Halvorsen