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Measuring the stringency of land-use regulation : the case of China's building-height limits
Brueckner, Jan K.; Fu, Shihe; Gu, Yizhen; Zhang, Junfu - 2016
This paper develops a new approach for measuring the stringency of a major form of land-use regulation, building-height restrictions, and it applies the method to an extraordinary dataset of land-lease transactions from China. Our theory shows that the elasticity of land price with respect to...
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Land use and fiscal competition
Büttner, 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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An evaluation of protected area policies in the European Union
Grupp, Tristan Earle; Mishra, Prakash; Reynaert, Mathias; … - 2023
The European Union designates 26% of its landmass as a protected area, limiting economic development to favor biodiversity. This paper uses the staggered introduction of protected-area policies between 1985 and 2020 to study the selection of land for protection and the causal effect of...
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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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The rise (and fall) of tech clusters
Kichko, Sergey; Liang, Wen-Jung; Mai, Zhaocheng; … - 2020
Tech clusters play a growing role in knowledge-based economies by accommodating high-tech firms and providing an environment that fosters location-dependent knowledge spillovers and promote R&D investments by .rms. Yet, not much is known about the economic conditions under which such entities...
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Tax streams, land rents and urban land allocation
Tang, Yugang; Su, Zhihao; Hou, Yilin; Yin, Zhendong - 2023 - This version: November, 2023
This paper examines the fiscal motives behind municipal governments' decisions to allocate commercial and residential land when two categories of land use are subject to different fiscal revenue alternatives: business-related tax and/or land rent. We use urban parcel-level land transfers during...
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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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Pollution and city size : can cities be too small?
Borck, Rainald; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2016
We study the optimal and equilibrium size of cities in a city system model with environmental pollution. Pollution is …, if pollution is local or per capita pollution increases with population, we find that equilibrium cities are too large …. When pollution is global and per capita pollution declines with city size, however, equilibrium cities may be too small …
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Corrective taxation for curbing pollution and promoting green product design and recycling
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2000
which exhibits distortions due to pollution, external landfilling costs and inefficient product design. The allocative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781631
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Smart cap
Karp, Larry S.; Traeger, Christian - 2021
We introduce a "smart" cap and trade system that eliminates the welfare costs of asymmetric information (“uncertainty”). This cap responds endogenously to technology or macroeconomic shocks, relying on the market price of certificates to aggregate information. It allows policy makers to...
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