Scholars@Duke
Patrick Bayer

Patrick Bayer

Gilhuly Family Distinguished Professor in Economics
Economics
patrick.bayer@duke.edu
Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708-0097
236 Social Sciences, Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Other

The Vulnerability of Minority Homeowners in the Housing Boom and Bust: Corrigendum

Other American Economic Journal: Economic Policy · February 2017 Full text Cite

A Jury of Her Peers: The Impact of the First Female Jurors on Criminal Convictions

Other Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · February 10, 2016 This paper uses an original data set of more than 3000 cases from 1918 to 1926 in the Central Criminal Courts of London to study the effect of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919. Implemented in 1921, this Act made females eligible to serve on E ... Cite

Speculative Fever: Investor Contagion in the Housing Bubble

Other Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · February 1, 2016 Historical anecdotes of new investors being drawn into a booming asset market, only to suffer when the market turns, abound. While the role of investor contagion in asset bubbles has been explored extensively in the theoretical literature, causal empirical ... Open Access Cite

What Drives Racial and Ethnic Differences in High Cost Mortgages? The Role of High Risk Lenders

Other Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · February 1, 2016 This paper examines racial and ethnic differences in high cost mortgage lending in seven diverse metropolitan areas from 2004-2007. Even after controlling for credit score and other key risk factors, African-American and Hispanic home buyers are 105 and 78 ... Cite

Speculators and Middlemen: The Strategy and Performance of Investors in the Housing Market

Other Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper · January 13, 2015 Cite

Endogenous Sources of Volatility in Housing Markets: The Joint Buyer-Seller Problem

Other Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · December 5, 2014 This paper presents new empirical evidence that internal movement - selling one home and buying another - by existing homeowners within a metropolitan housing market is especially volatile and the main driver of fluctuations in transaction volume over the ... Cite

Estimating Racial Price Differentials in the Housing Market

Other Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · March 1, 2013 This paper uses unique panel data covering over two million repeat-sales housing transactions from four metropolitan areas to test for the presence of racial price differentials in the housing market. Drawing on the strengths of these data, our research de ... Open Access Cite

Price Discrimination in the Housing Market

Other Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · May 1, 2012 This paper sets out a new research design to test for price discrimination by sellers in the housing market. The design controls carefully for unobserved differences in the quality of neighborhoods and homes purchased by buyers of each race, using novel pa ... Open Access Cite

A Fair and Impartial Jury? The Role of Age in Jury Selection and Trial Outcomes

Other Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) · February 1, 2012 This paper uses data from over 700 felony trials in Sarasota and Lake Counties in Florida from 2000-2010 to examine the role of age in jury selection and trial outcomes. The results of the analysis imply that prosecutors are more likely to use their peremp ... Open Access Cite

Racial Sorting and Neighborhood Quality

Other In cities throughout the United States, blacks tend to live in significantly poorer and lower-amenity neighborhoods than whites. An obvious first-order explanation for this is that an individual%u2019%u2019s race is strongly correlated with socioeconomic s ... Open Access Link to item Cite

Jury Discrimination in Criminal Trials

Other This paper examines the impact of jury racial composition on trial outcomes using a unique dataset of all felony trials in Sarasota County, Florida between 2004 and 2009. We utilize a research design that exploits day-to-day variation in the composit ... Cite