Are buyers of apartments superstitious? Evidence from the Russian real estate market

We study the influence of numerological superstitions on people’s buying behavior in the apartment market using unique actual sales data. Based on the dataset from Saint-Petersburg primary real estate market we compare the share of sold apartments on floor 7 with that on floors 6 and 8, whereas floo...

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Main Authors: Evgeny A. Antipov, Elena B. Pokryshevskaya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2015-11-01
Series:Judgment and Decision Making
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Online Access:http://journal.sjdm.org/15/151009/jdm151009.pdf