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Historical city growth, in the United States and worldwide, has required remarkable transformation of outdated durable buildings. Private land-use decisions may generate inefficiencies, however, due to externalities and various rigidities. This paper analyzes new plot-level data in the aftermath...
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location of service-sector establishments to measure commuting and non-commuting trips within the Greater Tokyo metropolitan …
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trading restrictions in the interbank foreign exchange (FX) market for Japanese banks during the Tokyo lunch period. Ito … of the Tokyo lunch period. Moreover, we document that the standard variance-ratio methodology inference in this high …
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this view. The evidence comes from the introduction of trading in Tokyo over the lunch-hour. Lunch return variance doubles … private value is transitory. Finally, the morning exhibits a clear U-shape when Tokyo closes over lunch, and it disappears …
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In analyzing the dynamics of Tokyo housing price, we have compiled annual micro data sets from individual listings in a … regressions give estimates of price and rent increases in the last 11 years in Tokyo. According to these estimates, prices …
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/settlement price for the day. Major fixings occur at 9:55 am Tokyo time for transactions between Japanese banks and their customers … provision at the fixing time is larger than other times, which makes the price impact of any trade smaller. At the Tokyo fixing … liquidity at the Tokyo fixing as well, such financial institutions had announced prices to be more favorable for banks up until …
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Using data compiled from concentrated residential urban revitalization programs implemented in Richmond, VA, between 1999 and 2004, we study residential externalities. Specifically, we provide evidence that in neighborhoods targeted by the programs, sites that did not directly benefit from...
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Many observers argue that urban revitalization harms the poor, primarily by raising rents. Others argue that urban decline harms the poor by reducing job opportunities, the quality of local public services, and other neighborhood amenities. While both decay and revitalization can have negative...
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In Beijing, the metropolitan government has made enormous place based investments to increase green space and to improve public transit. We examine the gentrification consequences of such public investments. Using unique geocoded real estate and restaurant data, we document that the construction...
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This paper studies one of the largest spatially targeted redevelopment efforts implemented in the United States: public housing demolitions sponsored by the HOPE VI program. Focusing on Chicago, we study welfare and racial disparities in the impacts of demolitions using a structural model that...
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