CLEAN ENERGY FROM CARBON RICH REAL ESTATE

Amplifying Real Estate Value through Energy & Water Management: From ESCO to “Energy Services Partner”

The energy service company (ESCO) business model could become significantly more effective by integrating the energy-efficiency purveyor and their capital into the underlying building ownership and operation partnership, rather than the current model in which the ESCO remains an outsider with higher transaction costs and limited interest and participation in the value created by the cost saving...

Real estate of names

A common convention for writing names (identifiers) in mathematical formulas makes poor use of the real estate on the page occupied by those names. Here is a design principle for using space more efficiently. The choice of a suitable notation is a vital part of designing clear and convincing presentations of scientific material. Good notation is precise, concise , and suggestive; poor notation ...

Clean Energy Diplomacy from Bush to Obama

Real estate of names

A common convention for writing names (identifiers) in mathematical formulas makes poor use of the real estate on the page occupied by those names. Here is a design principle for using space more efficiently.

Forthcoming: Real Estate Economics

This paper shows that, in the presence of transaction costs payable by borrowers on ree-nancing, it is possible to construct a separating equilibrium in which borrowers with diiering mobility select xed rate mortgages (FRMs) with diierent combinations of coupon rate and points. We also show that, in the absence of such costs, no such equilibrium is possible. This provides a possible explanation...