Brueckner, Jan K.; Sridhar, Kala Seetharam - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012) 6, pp. 1061-1067
This paper estimates the effect of building-height limits on the spatial sizes of Indian cities. Regression results show that height limits, which are imposed in draconian fashion in India, cause spatial expansion of its cities, as predicted by the theoretical model of Bertaud and Brueckner...