Using unique data on condominium transactions that allow for accurately-measured capital gains and losses, we examine the impact of these gains and losses on homeowner decisions. Consistent with the disposition effect, owners with a gain have higher sell propensities than those with a loss. Since real estate prices result from owner negotiations with buyers and tenants, we also examine whether ...

In an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud, tenants want to receive reliable services and the cloud provider intends to reducing intra-network traffic in order to provide more services. Achieving the requirements of both sides is a challenging problem. Current tenant abstraction models cannot provide enough information for the cloud provider to optimize network traffic while satisfying reli...

In the service-centric Internet, multiple virtual services (tenants) are overlayed on top of the same infrastructure (both in wide-area networks and in datacenter networks). We propose conserving energy, in this setting, by virtualizing network power consumed by each tenant, feeding back that information to the tenant, and incentivizing the tenant to conserve energy by making their bill proport...