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Goodspeed, Timothy - 2013

This paper surveys recent research on decentralization and natural disasters. The first part discusses results from theoretical models that have been used to study the issues that arise when natural disasters occur in a country with more than one level of government. The next section discusses...

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Cointegration of Matched Home Purchases and Rental Price Indexes -- Evidence from Singapore

Baltagi, Badi H. - 2015

This paper exploits the homogeneity feature of the Singapore private residential condominium market and constructs matched home purchase price and rental price series using the repeated sales method. These matched series allow us to conduct time series analysis to examine the long-term present...

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A Theory of Urban Squatting and Land-Tenure Formalization in Developing Countries

Brueckner, Jan K. - 2013

This paper offers a new theoretical approach to urban squatting, reflecting the view that squatters and formal residents compete for land within a city. The key implication of this view is that squatters quot;squeezequot; the formal market, raising the price paid by formal residents. The...

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Sprawl and Blight

Brueckner, Jan K.; Helsley, Robert W. - 2021

The objective of this paper is to show how the same market failures that contribute to urban sprawl also contribute to urban blight. The paper develops a simple dynamic model in which new suburban and older central-city properties compete for mobile residents. The level of housing services...

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Why Not in Your Backyard? On the Location and Size of a Public Facility

Bellettini, Giorgio; Kempf, Hubert - 2021

territory. This facility generates differentiated benefits to neighborhoods depending on their distance from it. In the case of … government. Some interesting results arise in the case where only a subset of neighborhoods lobby. First, the solution of the … an agglomeration effect. Third, some non-lobbying neighborhoods may be better off than in the case where all …

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Decentralization and Natural Disasters

Goodspeed, Timothy J. - CESifo - 2013

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Bargaining over Residential Real Estate: Evidence from England

Merlo, Antonio M.; Ortalo-Magné, François - CESifo - 2002

This paper presents and investigates a new data set of individual residential property transactions in England. The main novelty of the data is the record of all listing price changes and all offers made on a property, as well as all the visits by potential buyers for a subset of the properties....

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Gentrification and Neighborhood Housing Cycles: Will America's Future Downtowns be Rich?

Brueckner, Jan K.; Rosenthal, Stuart S. - CESifo - 2005

This paper identifies a new factor, the age of the housing stock, that affects where high- and low-income neighborhoods … over time, the location of these neighborhoods varies over the city’s history. The model predicts a suburban location for …

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Why not in your Backyard? On the Location and Size of a Public Facility

Bellettini, Giorgio; Kempf, Hubert - CESifo - 2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094359

A Theory of Urban Squatting and Land-Tenure Formalization in Developing Countries

Brueckner, Jan K.; Selod, Harris - CESifo - 2008

This paper offers a new theoretical approach to urban squatting, reflecting the view that squatters and formal residents compete for land within a city. The key implication of this view is that squatters “squeeze” the formal market, raising the price paid by formal residents. The squatter...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094364