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In spite of a growing recognition of the importance of supply conditions for the level and volatility of house prices, empirical work on housing supply outside the US is scarce. This paper considers various measures of housing supply in the Netherlands, where real house prices have roughly...
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Why has job growth over the past decades been weaker in the Dutch Randstad area than in surrounding regions? In a simultaneous equations analysis, we find that employment adjusts to the regional supply of labour. Net internal migration is predominantly determined by regional housing supply and...
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How should urban containment and the diversion of households to nearby residential areas be evaluated from a welfare … intercity infrastructure provision, and a Pigouvian tax on the conversion of land to urban use in both cities would then attain …
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Urban re-development projects may generate various positive as well as negative spatial externalities to the existing … a large multi-functional urban centre. We employ a specific stated preference method (viz. a willingness … towards such end-states. It is concluded that the multi-functional urban re-development project under consideration is not …
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Contemporary European urban planning policies aim to mix land uses in compact neighbourhoods. It is presumed that …
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The search for frameworks and indicators of sustainable development has taken a prominent place in this journal. However, some specific aspects have received little or no attention, notably the spatial dimension and the role of international trade in indicator development. Moreover, many...
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Wetlands provide many important goods and services to human societies, and generate nonuse values as well. Wetlands are also very sensitive ecosystems that are subject to much stress from human activities. Reducing the stress on wetlands requires a spatial matching between physical planning,...
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In this paper the efficient allocation of natural recreational areasis analysed. Natural recreational areas have the features of publicgoods. We present the efficient allocation of this non-excludablepublic good in a rational general equilibrium model withheterogeneous agents. This allows us to...
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