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Cities without skylines : worldwide building-height gaps and their implications

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

geospatialized data set on the year of construction and heights of tall buildings around the world, we compare the total height of a … other measures of land-use regulation and international measures of housing prices, sprawl, congestion and pollution. Taken … together, the results suggest that stringent building-height regulations around the world might be imposing relatively large …

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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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Do political parties matter for local land use policies?

Solé-Ollé, Albert; Viladecans Marsal, Elisabet - 2013

Despite interest in the impact of land use regulations on housing construction and housing prices, little is known about the drivers of these policies. The conventional wisdom holds that homeowners have an influence on restrictive local zoning. In this paper, we contend that the party...

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Do land use policies follow road construction

Garcia-López, Miquel-Àngel; Solé-Ollé, Albert; … - 2014

We study whether local land use policies are modified in response to enhanced demand for building generated by a new highway, and examine the extent to which this effect of land use regulations affects building activity. We focus on the case of Spain during the last housing boom (1995-2007). We...

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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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Competition, land prices, and city size

Kichko, Sergey - 2019

Larger cities typically give rise to two opposite effects: tougher competition among firms and higher production costs. Using an urban model with substitutability of production factors and pro-competitive effects, I study the response of the market outcome to city size, land-use regulations, and...

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Land use regulations, migration and rising house price dispersion in the U.S.

Cun, Wukuang; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2018

This paper develops a dynamic spatial equilibrium model of regional housing markets in which house prices are jointly determined with migration flows. Agents optimize period-by-period and decide whether to remain where they are or migrate to a new location at the start of each period. The gain...

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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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Why does working from home vary across countries and people?

Zarate, Pablo; Dolls, Mathias; Davis, Steven J.; Bloom, … - 2024

We use two surveys to assess why work from home (WFH) varies so much across countries and people. A measure of cultural individualism accounts for about one-third of the cross-country variation in WFH rates. Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US score highly on individualism and WFH rates,...

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Will skyscrapers save the planet? : building height limits and urban greenhouse gas emissions

Borck, Rainald - 2014

This paper studies the effectiveness of building height limits as a policy to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It shows that building height limits lead to urban sprawl and higher emissions from commuting. On the other hand, aggregate housing consumption may decrease which reduces emissions...

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