The Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines

CASEreport

Keeping Communities Together: How smaller social landlords and community-led housing can provide affordable, secure, low cost accommodation for communities in need

Ellie Benton, Anne Power and Ruby Russell

This report sets out the potential for small, community-based housing organisations to deliver homes for people in housing need, within their own communities. It uncovers innovative examples and models for how this can b...Read more...

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Social Cost Benefit Analysis of the no recourse to public funds (NRPF) policy in London

Ellie Benton, Jacob Karlsson, Ilona Pinter, Bert Provan, Kath Scanlon and Christine Whitehead

This report estimates the monetised social and economic gains (benefits) of removing of the No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) condition for certain household in England. It compares this to the costs of allowing them to...Read more...

CASEreport

Climate Crisis/Housing Crisis: How can social landlords reconcile safety and energy saving?

Ellie Benton, LSE Housing and Communities and Anne Power

Econometrics Paper

Minimax Risk in Estimating Kink Threshold and Testing

Javier Hidalgo, Heejun Lee, Heejun Lee, Jungyoon Lee and Myung Hwan Seo

We derive a risk lower bound in estimating the threshold parameter without knowing whether the threshold regression model is continuous or not. The bound goes to zero as the sample size n grows only at the cube root ra...Read more...

Econometrics Paper

Nonparametric prediction with spatial data

Abhimanyu Gupta and Javier Hidalgo

We describe a (nonparametric) prediction algorithm for spatial data, based on a canonical factorization of the spectral density function. We provide theoretical results showing that the predictor has desirable asymptot...Read more...