Herman Donner

• PhD
• Associate Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Rent control measures are typically in place to assist low-income households and decrease segregation. Yet, there is little empirical research on the social impact of such policies and specifically the role of how rent-controlled apartments are allocated. This study analyzes the income-distributional effects of rent control with a novel dataset tha...

Academics and businesses alike tend to fail at understanding how the IoT revolution is monetized. We outline three main categories of how IoT will impact business models: (a) improved customer matching and tracking of marketing returns, (b) individualized offers and pricing when consumer demand and price elasticities can be identified, and (c) smar...

This study adds to previous research analyzing the impact of foreclosure status on real estate sales price by using a Swedish dataset were an appraiser has estimated the market value of apartments before they were sold at foreclosure auction. Appraisal data can address the issue of selection bias and a potential overestimation of foreclosure relate...

We analyze mobility within cities from the perspective of data acquisition and how location-based-services enable companies to set demand and preferences in a geographic context. A key aspect is that movement creates context-based-intelligence when it becomes possible to adjust advertisement and offers based on location, activity and social-context...

Purpose: This paper tests the popular perception that the storefront location choices of premium brands are positively related to adjacent rents. Focusing on the case of Starbucks, a popular international coffee chain, we examine the association between Starbucks locations and rents in Manhattan, New York. Methodology: We use a multi-year dataset...

Based upon cooperative apartments sold in Stockholm, Sweden during the period of 2012 to mid-2014, we find that leasehold status (meaning that the cooperative does not own the land that the apartment building occupies) has a small but statistically significant impact on price of -2.3% when controlling for location and apartment characteristics in a...

The paradigm shift of focus from rental apartments to owner occupied units on the Swedish property market has led to a substantial number of rental apartments being converted to cooperative apartments. Such conversions are typically done at prices below market value. This provides a setting with strong financial incentives for tenants involved in s...

Urban environments are composed of urban population, urban infrastructure, city governance and commercial markets within cities. The rapid growth of emerging technologies for sensing and communicating data is being leveraged by commercial companies to create digital applications where machine learning applications analyze multiple kinds of data now...

(‘Distributional effects of rent control’, in Swedish) Ekonomisk Debatt (Journal of the Swedish Economic Association), Issue 8 2017

Using data from Stockholm, Sweden, it is examined if foreclosed properties are sold at a discount. This institutional setting differentiates from the U.S. and studies of REO properties. It is found that properties experience an eight times higher turnover subsequent to a foreclosure compared with the general market, indicating that professional buy...

Based on data of sold apartments and single-family houses in Stockholm, Sweden, during the period of 2006 through 2013, we find that forced sales of apartments and single-family houses cause a substantial price discount. The results of a hedonic spatial Durbin model show a negative impact on transaction price of 20.1% for foreclosed apartments and...

Juridisk Tidskrift (Stockholm University Law Review), Issue 1 2015/2016