The residential mortgage market becomes a financial engine for the booming residential housing development and sustained economic growth in China. Our study provides the first rigorous empirical analysis on the earlier performance of residential mortgage market in China based on a unique micro...

We examine commercial land markets in Krakow, Poland over a ten-year period of transitionfrom socialist management to a market economy. We explore the spatial and temporal evolutionof land prices over this period. In particular, we are interested in identifying trends toward oraway from...

This study examines the impact of rent control of mobile home parks in seven counties of California between 1983 and 2003. We assembled an extensive and timely data set and, thus, were able to test more carefully specified econometric models than had been employed in prior studies of California...

The well-known increase in the geographical concentration of hog production suggests the presence of agglomeration economies related to spatial spillovers and inter-dependencies among industries. In this paper, we examine whether the restrictions on land application of manure may weaken...

In 1989, Poland undertook a series of institutional reforms that effectively introduced economiccompetition into land markets. Over the next several years ownership rights to land previouslyunder government control were distributed to individuals and ¯rms. Prior to reforms, land hadbeen...

Increasingly, U.S. metropolitan areas are polycentric. While this is well recognized, there is lit-tle consensus as to the appropriate method for identifying centers of employment and their extent.Discussions of sprawl and decentralization, agglomeration and productivity, and the impacts...

[Paper in French] The Bretagne region is an agricultural area located in the north-west of France. In addition to urban pressure, the competition for farmland is enhanced by strong environmental regulations and incentives. The objective of this paper is to study the determinants of farmland...

In this paper, we investigate how environmental and land transaction regulations influence the price of agricultural plots sold in France. We use data from individual transactions for the period 1994-2010 in the NUTS2 region Brittany. Estimations were performed both ignoring and accounting for...