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Compactness vs. Sprawl Revisited: Converging Views

Ewing, Reid; Richardson, Harry W.; Bartholomew, Keith; … - 2014

This paper examines the relative merits of compact cities or urban sprawl (suburban settlement patterns) as a spatial …

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Regulatory Barriers to Climate Action: Evidence from Conservation Areas in England

Fetzer, Thiemo - 2023

Preserving heritage is an important part of maintaining collective identity for future generations. Yet, culturally defined notions of "heritage" or "character", in the context of the climate crisis, may be a barrier to individual and collective climate action to tackle a much more existential...

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Land Use and Fiscal Competition

Buettner, Thiess - 2021

This paper explores the effects of fiscal competition on local land use. A theoretical analysis considers the tradeoff faced by a local government deciding about the amount of land made available for commercial or residential uses, when its expansion has adverse effects on the quality of life....

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Work-from-Home and Cities: An Elementary Spatial Model

Brueckner, Jan K. - 2024

This paper analyzes the urban impacts of hybrid WFH in the simplest possible model, relying on Leontief utility and production functions and other simplifying assumptions. The analysis shows that introduction of WFH raises both the wage and land consumption of households while shrinking the size...

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Size and soft budget constraints

Crivelli, Ernesto; Staal, Klaas - 2006

There is much evidence against the so-called too big to fail hypothesis in the case of bailouts to sub-national governments. We look at a model where districts of different size provide local public goods with positive spillovers. Matching grants of a central government can induce...

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Do Land Markets Anticipate Regulatory Change? Evidence from Canadian Conservation Policy

Boskovic, Branko; Nøstbakken, Linda - 2016

Regulation often evolves, and affected consumers or firms may adjust their behavior in anticipation of potential … changes to regulation. Using shifting land use regulation boundaries and oil lease prices from Canada, we estimate the effect … unregulated leases. Based on our estimates, not accounting for anticipation underestimates the total cost of the regulation by …

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Regulatory Barriers to Climate Action : Evidence from Conservation Areas in England

Fetzer, Thiemo - 2023

Preserving heritage is an important part of maintaining collective identity for future generations. Yet, culturally defined notions of “heritage” or “character”, in the context of the climate crisis, may be a barrier to individual and collective climate action to tackle a much more...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014259677

Cities without Skylines: Worldwide Building-Height Gaps and Their Implications

Jedwab, Remi; Barr, Jason; Brueckner, Jan K. - 2020

other measures of land-use regulation and international measures of housing prices, sprawl, congestion and pollution. Taken …

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Is the Rent Too High? Land Ownership and Monopoly Power

Watson, C. Luke; Ziv, Oren - 2021

We investigate the sources, scope, and implications of landowner market power. We show how zoning regulations generate … Manhattan. Furthermore, pecuniary spillovers between zoning constraints and markups at other buildings are appreciable. Up-zoning … that results in 417 additional housing units at zoning-constrained buildings reduces markups on policy-unconstrained units …

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Economic land use, ecosystem services and microfounded species dynamics

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2004

In an integrated economy-ecosystem model humans choose their land use and leave the residual land as habitat for three species forming a food chain. The size of habitat determines the diversity and abundance of species. That biodiversity generates, in turn, a flow of ecosystem services with...

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